Aussie Pub Crawls

Tesla’s Elon Musk says that advances in Artificial Intelligence present a “fundamental risk to the existence of civilization.” Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff believes Facebook ought to be regulated like a tobacco company because social media has become (literally?) carcinogenic. And Russian zillionaire George Soros last week called Google “a menace to society.” Eschewing much of the over-the-top luddism that now fills the New York Times (“Silicon Valley is Not Your Friends”), the Guardian (“The Tech Insiders Who Fear a Smartphone Dystopia”), and other mainstream media outlets, Keen proffers practical solutions to a wide range of tech-related woes. These include persistent public and private surveillance, labor displacement, and fake news.