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Who Controls our Technology? ft. Daron Acemoğlu & Simon Johnson

The New Liberal Podcast

CHAPTER

The Importance of Choice in Technology

Tyler Cowen: I think we're talking the book a lot about techno optimists. We are in the business of disputing that just innovating will necessarily deliver benefits for most people within the foreseeable future. The degree of creation and destruction that you get out of technology is a matter of choice, he says. "We can create lots of new tasks and lots of new capabilities for workers while we're also displacing them"

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