Winners Take All by Giridharadas Anand

Author:Giridharadas, Anand [Giridharadas, Anand]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2018-08-27T21:00:00+00:00

Even though Hinton could seem to be an archetype of what Ramdas was condemning, he would come to criticize the great business conquest that he acknowledged being part of and at the same time wanted to escape. He called it “the Trying-to-Solve-the-Problem-with-the-Tools-That-Caused-It issue.” The spread of these protocols was, he said, a “continuation of the colonial, imperial arrogance of the enlightened white man with money and science, and noble and benevolent intentions, who will solve these problems.” The situation was no longer British colonizers helping themselves to your country. It was well-suited people with laptops offering to solve social problems, often pro bono, without needing to know much. Hinton worried that the ascendancy of this PowerPoint-greased “problem-solving” was “slightly more scientific, slightly more rational, but it’s an extension of that tradition.”

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