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The Status of the Intersection

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Technologists are trying to make the ends of technology meet with aspirational humanistic means

By Toby Shorin, Researcher in Residence at Baukunst Everywhere one looks in Silicon Valley these days, one finds new attempts to define what a technologist is. From my perspective at least, the latest generation of founders have broken with the ascetic productivity culture of early tech, and are parting ways with one of tech’s most dearly-held principles: the notion that the best are “10x” experts in their specific field. Instead they are smushing tech and other things together, exploring the intersections of “tech” and “anything else.” The new crop of entrepreneurs—and I don’t just mean…

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