Not to be cynical, but there's enormous PR pressure on Google and Sunday Pichai specifically to make this their opinion. Widespread public opinion is turning ag

Not to be cynical, but there's enormous PR pressure on Google and Sunday Pichai specifically to make this their opinion. Widespread public opinion is turning against silicon valley, and even technological advancement more generally, like a kind of mini-second-postmodernism. For sure silicon valley has some serious problems, but humanity is a lot better off generally than it was a few centuries ago, and the reason isn't because we all became nicer people. Discounting technology as a driver of human flourishing is a grave mistake.