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The possibility of mass automation in the long-term is an eventuality that should be discussed and prepared for, beginning immediately. The more pressing problem, however, is the transition to a more automated society that will occur over the next several decades, particularly in countries such as …

David Hanson, a programmer and partner at software firm Basecamp, argues “it takes a while for people to catch up when the world changes, but eventually they do, and now they have.”

It used to be that you could unironically claim to be disrupting this or that, and people would look at you with…

Based on their behaviors to date, many would likely argue that the industry has not proven itself to be sufficiently mature or capable of handling such responsibility. Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former CSO, has put forth the argument that the attitude towards responsibility in Silicon Valley has not k…

In an article entitled, “The Shut-in Economy,” tech journalist Lauren Smiley details how a growing majority of products emerging from Silicon Valley “are created by the urban young for the needs of urban young,” many of which are born of the ubiquitous “on-demand economy.”32 Examples range from sui…

• Don’t be evil. (Google, scrapped in 2015.)
• Bring the world closer together. (Facebook.)
• Put a dent in the universe. (Steve Jobs, Apple.)
• Move fast and break things. (Facebook.)
• Organize the world’s information. (Google.)
• Broadcast yourself. (YouTube.)
• Give everyone a voice. (Mar…