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Keeping tech in check
Clayton Collins
Technology puts marvels of productivity in our hands. Unmoderated, it can mislead us. It connects, but can isolate. It can save energy, but also be a voracious user of resources.
What should guide its use? In Israel, signs are emerging of overreliance on high-tech monitoring as a factor in the security breach of Oct. 7, 2023. On TikTok, a man with a Haiti-registered social media account earned social media stardom only to lose out to others better positioned to profit from his creative enterprise, thanks to algorithms and laws. Responsibility matters. So, too, does fairness.
