Robert Atkinson is president of the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. He joins the show to discuss his new book, Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths About Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy, co-authored with David Moschella.

Topics include:

• Tech panic: speeding-uppers vs. slowing-downers
• Tech and privacy: try living in an analogue village!
• The wicked problem of content moderation
• Is tech progress bad for the middle class?
• Is tech driving market concentration?
• “Industrial planning”: dirty words?

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Technology Fears and Scapegoats: 40 Myths about Privacy, Jobs, AI, and Today’s Innovation Economy