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Submission + - Rancour over a 1995 bet whether technology made things better or worse by 2020 (wired.com) 1

Submitted by joeblog
joeblog writes: In 1995, tech optimist and Wired editor Kevin Kelly challenged tech pessimist Kirkpatrick Sale to a $1000 wager whether computers would make things better or worse by 2020.
Now that the quarter-of-a-century has passed, both sides claim they won.
Sale while a student in the fifties co-wrote a musical with Thomas Pynchon called 1958 about escaping a dystopian America ruled by IBM.

Submission + - Do you trust Jeff Bezos to run free-and-fair elections? (reuters.com)

Submitted by joeblog
joeblog writes: Amazon pitches itself as a low-cost provider of secure election technology at a time when local officials and political campaigns are under intense pressure to prevent a repeat of 2016 presidential elections, which saw cyber-attacks on voting systems and election infrastructure.

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