Maybe it's just in the right place
Pourquoi la technologie américaine domine-t-elle ?
traduction française du billet de blog "Why does U.S. technology rule?" de Paul Krugman
All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology
A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.
Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry
Technology is just another human creation—like religion or government or sports or money. It's not perfect, and it never will be. But it's still a miracle.
The Innovation Fallacy
In the U.S.-Chinese tech race, diffusion matters more than invention.
What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort
BBC Audio | Business Daily | Why Europe wants to rely less on US tech companies
A push for digital sovereignty is changing how Europe thinks about technology
The Future of American Industry Depends on Open Source Tech
Instead of launching into a costly trade war with China, we need to fully embrace the fastest, safest, and most democratic way of advancing technology.
Why the World Is Drawing Battle Lines Against American Tech Giants (Published 2016)
European efforts to rein in the largest American tech companies are only a taste of what countries like Brazil, India and China are likely to do.
We used to get excited about technology. What happened?
Innovation that truly serves us all is in scarce supply. That’s a problem.
Europeans want US tech out of their businesses | Proton
We asked Europeans what they think of US tech dominating European businesses and they’re not happy: Find out what they say needs to change.
US tech dependence: A risk report for European businesses | Proton
Most European companies rely on US tech. Proton’s new report explains why that dependence is now a strategic risk and how to mitigate it.
Where Warren’s Wrong
Senator Warren’s proposal about how to regulate tech is wrong about history, the source of tech giant’s power, and the fundamental nature of technology itself. That doesn’t mean t…
The year of technoligarchy
In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall.
The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust | The Walrus
Trump and Big Tech have fused into a new kind of threat
Existential Technologies
Who controls whom? Is technology controlling us, or are we controlling it? Does it lead us where it wants to, even to our ruin, or can we force it to yield to our intentions? But what else would our intentions be, if not some further technology? Is the humanity–technology relationship always the same or historically variable? Where is this unknown force heading?
Same argument was made about smartphones (“expensive, elitist, not accessible to most of the world”). Now most of the world has smartphones. Why? Economies of scale and learning curves. You have to start with the easy part of the adoption curve before you can reach the hard part of adoption curve.
David Zipper
Robotaxis create serious problems in big, dense cities, but they’d be a godsend in small towns and rural areas—huge swaths of America that the AV industry is ignoring. My latest, in Bloomberg (gift link) 🧵
