{"id":7902,"date":"2020-05-12T03:09:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T03:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7902"},"modified":"2020-05-12T03:09:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T03:09:40","slug":"a-high-tech-coronavirus-dystopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/12\/a-high-tech-coronavirus-dystopia\/","title":{"rendered":"A High-Tech Coronavirus Dystopia"},"content":{"rendered":"

In each case, we face real and hard choices between investing in humans and investing in technology. Because the brutal truth is that, as it stands, we are very unlikely to do both. The refusal to transfer anything like the needed resources to states and cities in successive federal bailouts means that the coronavirus health crisis is now slamming headlong into a manufactured austerity crisis. Public schools, universities, hospitals, and transit are facing existential questions about their futures. If tech companies win their ferocious lobbying campaign for remote learning, telehealth, 5G, and driverless vehicles \u2014 their Screen New Deal \u2014 there simply won\u2019t be any money left over for urgent public priorities, never mind the Green New Deal that our planet urgently needs.
\nOn the contrary: The price tag for all the shiny gadgets will be mass teacher layoffs and hospital closures.
\nTech provides us with powerful tools, but not every solution is technological. And the trouble with outsourcing key decisions about how to \u201creimagine\u201d our states and cities to men like Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt is that they have spent their lives demonstrating the belief that there is no problem that technology cannot fix.
\nFor them, and many others in Silicon Valley, the pandemic is a golden opportunity to receive not just the gratitude, but the deference and power that they feel has been unjustly denied. And Andrew Cuomo, by putting the former Google chair in charge of the body that will shape the state\u2019s reopening, appears to have just given him something close to free reign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In each case, we face real and hard choices between investing in humans and investing in technology. Because the brutal truth is that, as it stands, we are very unlikely to do both. The refusal to transfer anything like the needed resources to states and cities in successive federal bailouts means that the coronavirus health … <\/p>\n

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