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Our tech overlords have an incredible business model:
Invent a product that promises to revolutionize human life.
Discover—or acknowledge—that the revolution could come with disastrous consequences.
Keep developing and selling the product anyway.
Graciously offer to help humanity clean up the mess.
Apparently, the solution to every problem created by technology is more technology. And when that doesn’t work, there’s always philanthropy.
Consider two revealing developments from the tech world this week.