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How evil is tech?

Online is a place for human contact but not intimacy; online is a place for information but not reflection

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If focus shifts to cognitive diversity, it could provide an easy way around doing the hard work of raising the low numbers of certain sections of employees in the ranks, in leadership roles and on boards. Photo: istock

David Brooks | NYT
Not long ago, tech was the coolest industry. Everybody wanted to work at Google, Facebook and Apple. But over the past year the mood has shifted.

Some now believe tech is like the tobacco industry — corporations that make billions of dollars peddling a destructive addiction. Some believe it is like the N.F.L. — something millions of people love, but which everybody knows leaves a trail of human wreckage in its wake.

Surely the people in tech — who generally want to make the world a better place — don’t want to go down this road. It will be interesting to see