Responsibility For Technology

Illustration by Ricardo Tomás

Cal Newport’s essay is an important declaration of our responsibility with regard to regulating technology:

It’s Time to Dismantle the Technopoly

As technology accelerates, we need to stop accepting the bad consequences along with the good ones.

In the fall of 2016—the year in which the proportion of online adults using social media reached eighty per cent—I published an Op-Ed in the Times that questioned the popular conception that you need to cultivate a strong social-media brand to succeed in the job market. “I think this behavior is misguided,” Continue reading