Don’t Be Evil: Fred Turner on Utopias, Frontiers, and Brogrammers

A conversation about making the world a better place.

Don’t Be Evil: Fred Turner on Utopias, Frontiers, and Brogrammers Fred Turner is one of the world’s leading authorities on Silicon Valley. A professor at Stanford and a former journalist, he has written extensively on the politics and culture of tech. We sat down with him to discuss how Silicon Valley sees itself, and what it means when the tech industry says it wants to save the world. Let’s start with the idea that technology is always a force for good. This strain of thought is pervasive in Silicon Valley. Where does it come from? What are its origins? It owes its origins to 1960s communali

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