What Innovation Looks Like?

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Rten sede, you think about how innovation works at the moment, there is a sort of tightly bound set of relationships between vench capital and technological, skilled labor. That is geared towards the production of billionaires through the creation of capitalist enterprises. What would it be like if you had a model f innovation that stated purpose was to create cooperative enterprise? Oi, for co operative enterprise. So were ou'd have adifferent approach to to innovation, because you the end result was differ you didn't want to create villines. Your anto create people who were in charge of their lives.

Paris Marx is joined by Dan Hind to discuss the problems with the existing tech industry and its links to the state, and his proposal for reorienting technological development to promote human flourishing and a cooperative economy.

Dan Hind is the author of “The Return of the Public: Democracy, Power and the Case for Media Reform” and recently wrote a report called “The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution” for The Next System Project and Common Wealth. He’s also written for the Guardian, the New Socialist, and the New Scientist. Follow Dan on Twitter as @danhind.

Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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