It can seem these days like tech apostates might outnumber evangelists in Silicon Valley
Photo-Illustration: Megan Paetzhold Last month, as Sacha Baron Cohen was delivering his made-for-social-media anti-social-media diatribe at the Anti-Defamation League, Tim Berners-Lee, the literal inventor of the World Wide Web, was preparing to step out from the shadows to acknowledge that, well, things online hadn’t gone exactly how he’d hoped — that the internet was at a “tipping point” and in need of root-and-branch remodeling. But Berners-Lee isn’t alone.
3. Marc Benioff Photo: Global Climate Action Summit, Nikki Richter/Wikimedia Just behind the bottom-up efforts of workplace reformers lie the top-down efforts of Silicon Valley’s most widely liked and respected CEO. Salesforce’s Benioff has pushed for a “new capitalism” and demanded that tech CEOs be activists.
6. Jaron Lanier Photo: dpa picture alliance / Alamy Stock Photo There are a lot of industries that wouldn’t take very seriously a white guy with dreadlocks who plays rare Asian flutes. Not Silicon Valley. Lanier’s status as a virtual-reality pioneer gives a special authority to his condemnations of the practices and faults of tech — most recently in his book Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now.
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