Closing the ruthlessness gap
We must defend our progress or lose it It’s all coming at us too fast — just as the tech pioneers intended. Journalist Kara Swisher writes in her terrific memoir Burn Book that tech innovators two and three decades ago were not big on safety tools. “They needed to anticipate consequences more.
Or at all,” she says. Instead, their ethos was expressed on early Facebook office posters: “Move fast and break things.” Judging by the current state of social media, they succeeded.
Like many people, I am addicted to the platform once called Twitter, despite Elon Musk turning it into a sewer pipe of hate and disinformation.
I follow some smart people there, including Swisher, a witty lesbian who knows all the tech CEOs and talks bluntly to them. Breaking things is also the evident mission of the Republican Party.
