Last weekend, a crowd of revelers in San Francisco’s Chinatown burned an autonomous vehicle from Waymo down to its frame. Tech is now the fifth least-trusted industry in America, having experienced a rapid loss in confidence by the American public after years of having been among the most admired. How did it come to this? 

Evan argues that these incidents signal that tech needs to get realistic and optimistic by embracing risk—but doing so in a way that brings the American public along with it. 

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