Anxiety About Technology

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People are very nervous that the pace of technological change is happening too fast. And i think that anxiety gets expressed in people's attitudes towards technology. In the west, certainly, attitudes towards technology and technology companies have really declined since about two thousand and 16, two thousand and 17. So there is a sense of really, really deep anxiety. It does get reflected, i at least in surveys, but i also think it gets more widely in society in the notion of the declining sense of trust.

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