What is Womxn? Here’s Why Your Company Needs to Get on Board.
Major companies are moving into the conversation about how to reflect the increasingly complex, nuanced ways Americans identify ourselves.
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Big Ideas, Little Learners
A new and detailed report from Omidyar Network explores the state of American innovation in early childhood and advocates more and better-focused spending. Few investments yield more societal benefit.
Google Search Results Are Dumbing Down
Google is not the source it once was, argues analyst Kay. Advertising considerations have undercut its previously less-biased approach to information, as is happening across the net. This is a major cautionary tale about where...
Facebook, China, and Ethical Tech: Key Techonomy Topics of 2018
Three major topics rose up repeatedly in Techonomy events and editorial in 2018: the fall of Facebook, the rise of China, and concerns about the negative impact of connected devices on our brains, the economy,...
Can Companies be ‘Good’?
Businesses are stepping into society's most contentious debates, raising the question: "What makes a good company good?" This has been one of the consistent themes throughout Techonomy 2018.
One Human Rights Campaign’s Social Media Struggles
My Stealthy Freedom is an Iranian women’s rights campaign against compulsory hijab laws. It is a thorn in the side of the Islamic Republic and has been the victim of sustained cyberattacks, hoaxes, misinformation and...
#MeToo Comes Out of the Shadows
As the tech industry’s issues with sexual harassment, workplace mistreatment, and abuse of power move into public view, employees are holding their companies accountable with displays of activism.
Tomorrow’s Midterms and Next Week’s Techonomy Conference
No matter the outcome of tomorrow’s U.S. midterm elections, political and business leaders must look inside themselves and examine how their every action, and those of their organizations, affects society’s future and the prospects of...
Will Technology be the Death of Education?
Schools have lost control of technology. Parents, teachers and students are all equally confused about how to balance tech in the classroom and beyond. The author, a clinical psychologist and school consultant, raises a sobering...
