{"id":41657,"date":"2024-01-04T13:42:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41657"},"modified":"2024-01-04T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:42:15","slug":"how-to-be-optimistic-about-technology-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/04\/how-to-be-optimistic-about-technology-now\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Be Optimistic About Technology Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/blog\/how-to-be-optimistic\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/blog\/how-to-be-optimistic\/\">\n<p>If you measure your level of optimism by how much course-correction has been working, then 2023 was a pretty hopeful year. In the span of about a decade, a handful of U.S. technology firms have solidified their place among the biggest and most powerful corporations in the world, so nobody should be surprised by a parallel increase in pushback for their breaches of public trust. New regulations and court decisions are part of a democratic process which is giving more structure to the ways in which high technology industries are able to affect our lives.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>That is a lot of change in one year and not all of it has been good. The Canadian government went all-in on the Online News Act which became a <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/google-online-news-act-deal\/\">compromised disaster<\/a>; there are plenty of questions about the specific ways the DMA and DSA will be enforced; Montana legislators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/11\/30\/1205735647\/montana-tiktok-ban-blocked-state\">tried to ban TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If there was one technology story we will remember from 2023, it was undeniably the near-vertical growth trajectory of generative &ldquo;artificial intelligence&rdquo; products. It is everywhere, and it is being used by normal people globally.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/29\/tech-giants\/\">Tech Giants<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heer: If you measure your level of optimism by how much course-correction has been working, then 2023 was a pretty hopeful year. In the span of about a decade, a handful of U.S. technology firms have solidified their place among the biggest and most powerful corporations in the world, so nobody should be surprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-01-04T18:42:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"88806427-4afa-4df7-a7d4-902ad22e9ac6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-01-04T18:42:18Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AiIBkJ0r6Tfen1JAq0i6axg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[447,2085,38,1351,1969,1927,1345,51,784,209,2137,355,1904,1860,1154],"class_list":["post-41657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-adobe","tag-antitrust","tag-apple","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-epic","tag-european-union","tag-figma","tag-google","tag-google-play-store","tag-legal","tag-meta","tag-privacy","tag-tiktok","tag-unauthorized-repair","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41658,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41657\/revisions\/41658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}