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Letters to a Young Technologist

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Letters to a Young Technologist is a collection of essays addressed to young technologists, written by a group of young technologists. This project began as a hope for reflection, and a desire for collaboration. We wanted to reflect on our roles and lives as young technologists, and to kindle broader conversations about these topics. We were driven by the realization that technologists hold an increasingly important position in society, with the capability to change billions of peoples' life experiences through the tools they build. But the set of ideologies or life-philosophies currently on offer to most people pursuing a career in technology are surprisingly shallow, as is many technologists' understanding of their field's history. This is one small step towards something different: an ethic that prioritizes technologists' agency, the need for self-reflection, and the importance of historical inquiry. We started out as an Interact Circle (part of an Interact grants program for creati

Letters to a Young Technologist Letters to a Young Technologist About → About the Essays Letters to a Young Technologist is a collection of essays addressed to young technologists, written by a group of young technologists. This project began as a hope for reflection, and a desire for collaboration. We wanted to reflect on our roles and lives as young technologists, and to kindle broader conversations about these topics. We were driven by the realization that technologists hold an increasingly important position in society, with the capability to change billions of peoples' life experiences th

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