With Twitter, FTX and Alexa all within the doldrums by the top of this 12 months, Annalee Newitz explains why that is truly an encouraging signal for humanity
Technology
| Columnist
14 December 2022
Simone Rotella
IT HAS been an apocalyptic 12 months for know-how, however that doesn’t imply we’re heading for dystopia. In truth, the most important tech failures of 2022 are literally an encouraging signal that many people are nonetheless fairly smart regardless of every little thing.
As I mentioned in my most up-to-date column (10 December), Twitter seems to be imploding after new proprietor Elon Musk fired hundreds of workers and allowed vaccine deniers and white supremacists again on the platform. For many people, it appeared like a nightmarish harbinger of issues to return on-line.
The quick response of many advertisers and customers was “get me …