Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us
Ro Khanna, "Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us"
English | ISBN: 1982163348 | 2022 | 368 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1982163348 | 2022 | 368 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Congressman Ro Khanna offers a revolutionary roadmap to facing America’s digital divide, offering greater economic prosperity to all. In Khanna’s vision, “just as people can move to technology, technology can move to people. People need not be compelled to move from one place to another to reap the benefits offered by technological progress” (from the foreword by Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate in Economics).
In the digital age, unequal access to technology and the revenue it creates is one of the most pressing issues facing the United States. There is an economic gulf between those who have struck gold in the tech industry and those left behind by the digital revolution; a geographic divide between those in the coastal tech industry and those in the heartland whose jobs have been automated; and existing inequalities in technological access—students without computers, rural workers with spotty WiFi, and plenty of workers without the luxury to work from home.
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