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Denyse O'Leary
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September 3, 2018
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Social Factors
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Silicon Valley grew old before it grew up

By April of this year, 100 employees were complaining about the Google groupthink
Denyse O'Leary
September 3, 2018
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Social Factors
Quip making the rounds: Would you trust a self-driving car from Google? Answer: Sure, if I needed a car that decided for me where I should go and then just drove me there. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 29, 2018
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Silicon Valley as a Colonial Power

Irish writer asks us to look more carefully at claims about “liberation”
Denyse O'Leary
August 29, 2018
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Ethics, Social Factors
The social media companies will force us to define ourselves over against the specifications of our would-be programmers. And say what you want about the conflict, it will never be dull. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 14, 2018
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George Gilder: Life after Google Will Be Okay

People will take ownership of their own data, cutting out the giant “middle man”
Denyse O'Leary
August 14, 2018
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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Social Factors

In his new book, he calls the successor era he envisions the “cryptocosm,” referring to the private encryption of data, represented by technologies such as blockchain.

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