How Tech Platforms Affect Our Digital Lives w/ Joanne McNeil
Tech Won't Save Us
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I've Written a Book About the Working Class Background of Some of the Founders
The founders of Am.org come from a more well off background, even though they presented themselves as like these really kind of self made individuals. So it is really interesting to kind of see the class backgrounds of a lot of these founders. I was so tired of hearing about people who sat at b b ss when they were seven and their father came home with a computer in the eighties. And then i so wanted to kind of push back that a little bit with, well, yes, i was on ell it was very ordinary. It was for the masses am ands just like kind of pushing back against these narratives.
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