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When meritocracy wins, everybody loses

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is Technology in the Shadow of Our Meritocracy?

David Frum: Is technology in the shadow of our meritocracy? Or I think what you might just call our culture? He says we are slaves to it more than it is slaves to us. The arc of technological innovation has some kind of set or deterministic path, he says. That's a source of hope that this is not technological determinism and can be shifted through policy.

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