248 | Breaking Analysis | Six Technology Myths and the Big Techlash

In the latest Breaking Analysis episode, Dave Vellante, chief analyst at theCUBE Research, talks to David Moschella, CUBE alum and nonresident senior fellow at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, about the widespread criticism of big tech, addressing common myths about technology's role in societal problems such as privacy invasion and misinformation.
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Moschella highlights insights from his book “Technology Fears and Scapegoats,” co-written with Canadian economist Robert Atkinson, which examines 40 misconceptions about technology, privacy, AI and innovation. They cover how privacy concerns are often exaggerated and explores the tendency to scapegoat social media for political polarization.
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In addition, Vellante and Moschella give a critique of antitrust efforts, suggesting that market forces are more effective in regulating big tech than government interventions.
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That was interesting and thought-provoking. You can think of technologies as a sequence, but you could also think of them as relations. For example, motorized transport inherits from other technologies, including two ancient ones (maybe not perfectly), controlled fire and the wheel. Those two were key to the faster pace of innovation that started with the industrial revolution (unless I have to re-learn some history). Of course, these days people talk about cars and rockets, not about the wheel and fire, and it might be similar for AI in the future. Still, I expect AI to be a foundational technology that supports an expanding body of innovation, rather than something that's disrupted or sidelined twelve years after the world started talking about it. I can't prove it will have a massive impact on our lives, but years ago I believed it would happen, and the last few years have not given me reasons to change my mind.