Technology: a tool or a weapon?
What people were really talking about at Davos.
One of EV's best friends, Diana Fox Carney, an accomplished economist, just returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos. Diana is the Executive Director at Pi Capital, a great content-rich convening organisation in London. She sent me her personal reflections on the event, and I really wanted to share them with you all.
I’d encourage you to have a read of his assessment of some of the conversations she had and sessions she attended, and see how they play into many of the themes in EV.
On technology and progress, Diana writes: “there was a clear emphasis on the upside of technologies” but also identifies some of the risks of a two-tier world. She also identified that “technology as a tool was battling with technology as a weapon and it still felt like the tech folk and the regular folk were worlds apart on optimism / pessimism and the adequacy of self-regulation”. This will be an interesting battleground in years to come.
There is a great deal in her pithy summary, I hope you enjoy i…