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"I went through college throughout my adultlife," he reflects, "I didn't just go get it. I started when I was twenty-two. I would go to work, and I would have to quit school sometimes and work more hours. It took me about ten years on and off." With three children to raise - a daughter who is eight…

Silicon Valley carries the banner of "technological exceptionalism", the idea that the regulations and laws that apply to their industry competitors or predecessors do not apply to them for the simple reason that they identify primarily astechnology companies. These tech giants reason that the tech…

To join the Uber driver workforce, prospective drivers download the Uber driver app onto their mobile smartphones. They then take their Uber-eligible vehicles to local mechanics to be certified as in good working order and upload their driver's license numbers and autoinsuranec pplicy numbers to th…

[...] Silicon Valley has a stroke stake in national debates over whether automation technology, such as self-driving cars, will take all ourjobs. Universal basic income is one form of "automationalimony" that is proposed to relieve the rising inequality often attributed to automation.

[...] frame their technologies as powerful engines of job creation. [...] While society may benefit from automated work, the fear is that these benefits will not be distributed equally: jobless futures imply some will get left behind. This threat isnot an inherent characteristic of technology but, …