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Silicon Valley's Most Disturbing Obsession

• bootload 10y ago
  "I remember once overhearing, in a San Francisco coffee shop, a 19-year-old start-up founder callously offer advice to an 18-year-old founder about how to fire an engineer. It makes me wonder, Who are these young entrepreneurs learning from? Who is teaching them that when they press a button on their keyboard, millions, or even billions, of people can be affected, sometimes in terrifying ways?" The un-intended consequences of technology. With cars we got drive-ins, TV: tv-dinners, smart phones: distracted people. The street finds its own use for technology.