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Don't ban new technologies – experiment with them carefully

  • Written by Ryan Muldoon, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
It's a mess, but is it all bad?EHFXC/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

For many years, Facebook’s internal slogan was “move fast and break things.” And that’s what the company did – along with most other Silicon Valley startups and the venture capitalists who fund them. Their general attitude is one of asking for forgiveness...

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