The Tech Dissenter blog offers a critical look at how technological change is shaping the United States and the world. The author, J.L. Rogers, is not a “techie.” He’s a social sciences and humanities guy.
Therefore, Tech Dissenter is uninterested (and in some cases unqualified) to rate various hardware or software products or to provide tech industry “inside baseball.” This blog will not help you fix your iPhone or provide stock tips for venture capitalists. Instead, Tech Dissenter reflects its author’s interest in history, law, public policy, and social science. It considers how social media, the sharing economy, automation, artificial intelligence, and other revolutionary technological developments are shaping American society.
The digital revolution is transforming the social, political, economic, legal, and cultural landscape of the USA. Tech Dissenter tends to be skeptical of tech-utopianism and Silicon Valley conventional wisdom, but this blog is (hopefully) not the simplistic or nostalgic rantings of a blogging luddite. Instead it attempts to offer a thoughtful, nuanced, and critical perspective regarding the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of the digital revolution’s influence on 21st Century American history.
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