{"id":7318,"date":"2020-03-08T13:40:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-08T13:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7318"},"modified":"2020-03-08T13:40:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T13:40:17","slug":"the-prodigal-techbro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7318","title":{"rendered":"The Prodigal Techbro"},"content":{"rendered":"

The journey feels fake. These \u2018I was lost but now I\u2019m found, please come to my TED talk\u2019 accounts typically miss most of the actual journey, yet claim the moral authority of one who\u2019s \u2018been there\u2019 but came back. It\u2019s a teleportation machine, but for ethics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Source:<\/p>\n

Maria Farrell, a technology policy critic, has written a nice essay on The Prodigal Techbro<\/a>. She sympathizes with technology bros who have changed their mind, in the sense of wishing them well, but feels that they shouldn’t get so much attention. Instead we need to care for those who were critics from the beginning and who really need the attention and care. She maps this onto the parable of the Prodigal Son; why does the son who was lost get all the attention? She makes it an ethical issue, which is interesting, one I imagine fitting an ethics of care.<\/p>\n

She ends the essay with this advice to techies who are changing their mind:<\/p>\n

So, if you\u2019re a prodigal tech bro, do us all a favour and, as\u00a0Rebecca Solnit says<\/a>, help \u201cturn down the volume a little on the people who always got heard\u201d:<\/p>\n