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  • Tech Steamrolls the Arts

    Tech Steamrolls the Arts0

    The Death of the Artist: How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech, by William Deresiewicz (Henry Holt; 368 pp., $27.99). Members of a book club at my highly selective undergraduate business school were stung by William Deresiewicz’s portrait of careerist, grade-grubbing college students in his scathing 2015 book, Excellent

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  • Tech Execs Limit Their Kids’ Screen Time

    Tech Execs Limit Their Kids’ Screen Time0

    In September 2014, the New York Times published an article whose headline came as a shock to many: “Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent.” The article’s author, Nick Bilton, reported that he was surprised when Jobs told him back in 2010 that “We limit how much technology our kids use at home.” But as it

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  • Tech Exec: Digital Companies Need Liberal Arts Majors

    Tech Exec: Digital Companies Need Liberal Arts Majors0

    According to an ancient maxim, change is the only constant. That idea is somewhat behind Rally Health executive Tom Perrault’s article in today’s Harvard Business Review. In the title he contends that “Digital Companies Need More Liberal Arts Majors.” Most digital companies today limit their hiring to those who have degrees or experience in a

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  • Tech Exec Doomsday Preppers: Protecting Themselves from the Automation Monster They Created

    Tech Exec Doomsday Preppers: Protecting Themselves from the Automation Monster They Created0

    “Doomsday Preppers,” An American reality series that ran on the National Geographic channel from 2011 to 2014, explored “…the lives of otherwise ordinary Americans who are preparing for the end of the world as we know it.” The movement continues today, with Silicon Valley technology executives among the latest participants in this survivalist world.  

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  • Tech and Role Reversals Have Made Both Sexes Unattractive

    Tech and Role Reversals Have Made Both Sexes Unattractive0

    Transsexuality affects around 0.6 percent or an estimated 1.4 million of the 327 million people in the U.S. and yet the media and the radical left has curiously made trans people’s experience central to our imaginations and regularly propose policy changes that purport to benefit them. I am skeptical. From my (admittedly not very broad) experience of trans

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  • Tearing Down the Greats and the ‘Democratic Spirit’

    Tearing Down the Greats and the ‘Democratic Spirit’0

    Imagine a white male carrying an American flag, wearing a Trump t-shirt, and accessorizing with a MAGA hat. Now imagine him looking at a wall of pictures memorializing various black individuals killed by police – and imagine him doing so within Seattle’s newly established autonomous zone, CHOP. If you think that sounds like a recipe

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