Show: 022 Top Priority Podcast | Technophobia 

Host: Duane Lester, Manager of Issue Education, Grassroots Leadership Academy 

Guests: Taylor Barkley, Program Officer of Technology & Innovation, Stand Together  

• The Stand Together vision for Technology & Innovation recognizes: min [6:12] 

1. Technology and innovation have been a force for good throughout human history.  
2. For the benefits to humanity to continue we need a policy and cultural framework friendly to innovation.  

• How do we apply the Stand Together Community VISION— to break barriers that stand in the way of people realizing their potential—to Tech & Innovation? min [22:24] 

• How our Community views Technophobia through the lens of the first mutually-reinforcing principle—Equal Rights. min [28:10]  
• How our Community views Technophobia through the lens of the second mutually-reinforcing principle—Mutual Benefit. min [32:20]  
• How our Community views Technophobia through the lens of the third mutually-reinforcing principle—Openness. min [45:12] 
• How our Community views Technophobia through the lens of the fourth mutually-reinforcing principle—Self-Actualization. min [48:25] 

Additional Resources  

• Ep 010 Top Priority | Tech and Innovation 
• Arthur Diamond on Openness to Creative Destruction on EconTalk with Russ Roberts 
• Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism by Arthur Diamond 
• Pessimists Archive  
• Like It or Not, Automation is Coming by Erica Jedynak & Taylor Barkley 
• Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about Technology from the Telegraph to Twitter by Luke Fernandez 
• Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal 
• Diving into The Shallows by Taylor Barkley 
• THE upload | A tech, policy, and culture blog from the Stand Together community  
• The Stand Together Community