The State Needs to Support the Public Good

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The leaders of the tech industry have nastonishingly, barocely remiss in not serving the public good. They claim that what they do for product development and market development is the same thing as the public good - it's just not. The state needs to support the public and build infer structures for the publicGood. And we ourselves have roles, particularly as technologists and people in the tec world, in trying to say to ourselves, how can be both an employee and a citizen? I have power in both realms. How can i be those things at the same time? When we start to think that way, it's really a shift in thinking, then we really

In 1940, a group of 60 American intellectuals formed the Committee for National Morale. “They’ve largely been forgotten,” says Fred Turner, a professor of communications at Stanford University, but their work had a profound impact on public opinion. They produced groundbreaking films and art exhibitions. They urged viewers to stop, reflect and think for themselves, and in so doing, they developed a set of design principles that reimagined how media could make us feel more calm, reflective, empathetic; in short, more democratic.