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2026-08-08 09:06 UTC
There's a name for this movement: it's called "Public Interest Technology" and the people who work in it are called "public interest technologists." There've always been techies who understood the link between tech and public wellbeing and who committed themselves to working for the betterment of society.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-08-08 09:06
But these numbers swelled as Big Tech companies saturated their markets and switched from growing by making products people like, to locking in their users and then extracting more value from their technological prisoners: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-raghavan It was the era when (in the words of Facebook's Jeff Hammerbacher) "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads": https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/06/12/click/ 2/