Democracy and technology

February 10, 2018


This past February, the University of California Irvine's Forum for the Academy and the Public hosted a symposium called, "Who Do We Think We Are? American Identity and the Ideal of Democracy in the 21st Century." I was invited to speak on a panel on "Democracy and Technology", and it's now online and linked above. I took the opportunity to talk about infrastructure and other systems, building on what I wrote in this piece for the Atlantic in 2017.