The Tech Boom, Backlash, and Boomerang
Chautauqua Lecture Series • 1h 21m
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Monday, July 20, 2020.
Nick Thompson on technological and ethical developments in Silicon Valley.
Thompson, is the editor-in-chief of Wired, is the first person to know and investigate new developments out of Silicon Valley as they unfold. As a champion of technology and its role in improving the world, Thompson has laid a vision across Wired to cover the changing realm of digital culture.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission.
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