This Week in Tech 793

Amy Webb and Cory Doctorow Fix All the Problems of Big Tech

• The dangers of dystopian thinking
•  The dangers of utopian thinking
•  Why we need an Office of Strategic Assessment vs why we need to break up monopolies
•  Is the problem that the government can't write sensible regulation?
•  Where should tech policy come from? Technologists? Smart people in government?
•  Is the problem that the government lacks knowledge? Or that people in general lack knowledge? Or that they refuse to be knowledgeable?
•  Bashing tech has become cool. Here's why that's dangerous.
•  Lead in the water in Flint and binge drinking in Britain
•  What is "The Problem" of Big Tech? Could we write a law to fix it?
•  Should companies fear lawsuits?
•  Is there a better way to make people and companies do things than regulation?
•  Is California Prop 24 a step in the right direction?
• is Inrupt a step in the right direction?
•  Privacy as a luxury good
•  Five Eyes, Japan, and Australia want to end encryption, but privacy is still important
•  Happy Rosh Hashanah!
•  We need more public intellectuals. But there is a danger in being intellectual. And Jewish.

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Links

• What Digital Doping Means for Esports—and Everything Else
• The Dangers of Cynical Sci-Fi Disaster Stories
• Interview with Cory Doctorow about his new sci-fi book Attack Surface, the third work in his Little Brother series
• Attack Surface: audiobook for the third Little Brother book
• Amy Webb
• Cory Doctorow's Craphound
• Libro.fm
• Future Today Institute
• Attack Surface
• Food Bank near me
• Pluralistic by Cory Doctorow
• Five Eyes governments, India, and Japan make new call for encryption backdoors | ZDNet
• With Prop. 24, California is trying to rewrite the rules of online privacy. Again.