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Pushing Tech To Trump Country
“There is plenty tech companies can do, but I don’t think they are doing much of it,” said Larry Downes, a Berkeley, Calif.-based innovation scholar with the Georgetown Center…
May 7, 2018
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The Politics of Machine-Learning Algorithms
An article by Mark MacCarthy, faculty affiliate, Center for Business and Public Policy: “Around 1200 BC, the Shang Dynasty in China developed a factory system to build thousands…
May 3, 2018
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What Most People Get Wrong About Men And Women
An article by Cathy Tinsley, professor: “The conversation about the treatment of women in the workplace has reached a crescendo of late, and senior leaders—men as well as women…
May 1, 2018
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Should The Tech Giants Be More Heavily Regulated?
An article by Larry Downes, project director, Center for Business and Public Policy: “‘Any sufficiently advanced technology,’ the late Arthur C. Clarke famously wrote in 1962, …
April 30, 2018
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GDPR And The End Of The Internet’s Grand Bargain
An article by Larry Downes, project director, Center for Business and Public Policy: “In May the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect, two years…
April 9, 2018
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Trump’s Census Policy Could Boomerang And Hurt Red States As Well As Blue States
A blog post by Robert Shapiro, senior policy fellow, Center for Business and Public Policy: “Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s decision this week to ‘reinstate’ a question on…
March 30, 2018
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Announce New Offerings For AI Usage Across Business Functions To Drive Outcomes-AT&T Inc.
The senior industry and innovation fellow at Georgetown University, Larry Downes said, “On one hand, the government is saying this is the Old World and AT&T Time Warner is saying…
March 22, 2018
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A Media Giant In The Balance: AT&T Antitrust Trial Kicks Off
“On one hand, the government is saying this is the Old World and AT&T Time Warner is saying this is the New World,” said Larry Downes, senior industry and innovation fellow at…
March 19, 2018
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Can Tech Fix Its Own Future?
An op-ed by Larry Downes, project director: “Is technology-based innovation, long seen as our best hope for improving quality of life, developing sustainable energy sources and…
March 1, 2018
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How More Regulation For U.S. Tech Could Backfire
An article from Larry Downes, project director, Center for Business and Public Policy: “If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over everything…
February 9, 2018