Diversity in Tech Faces a Fundamental Problem - The Atlantic
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Tech’s discriminatory culture might never change, no matter how many women and people of color are invited into the room.
When Amy Webb broke her ankle, she was forced to hobble around on a walking boot. That inconvenience spawned others: among them, she couldn’t pass through the metal detector at airport TSA PreCheck lines any longer. Instead, she had to use the backscatter machines that produce X-ray images of passengers. Webb, who is a professor at New York University and the author of The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity , took the inconvenience as a firsthand opportunity to watch how this technology, which uses computational methods to mark possible risks on the b
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