Wednesday, November 29, 2017

How Evil is Tech?


With all of education moving towards the better and faster tech, and with us all trying to meet students where they live, this article, written by David Brooks, poses some interesting questions. His three big critiques of the use of technology are as follows:
1. It destroys young people
2. Tech companies are greedy and knowingly are causing this addiction
3. The main tech companies operate in a near monopoly setting which allows them to institute user settings to invade people's private lives.

So what should our response be as economics teachers and adults? I really like the way the article ends by saying, "Imagine if instead of claiming to offer us the best things in life, tech merely saw itself as providing efficiency devices. Its innovations can save us time on lower-level tasks so we can get offline and there experience the best things in life."


 


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