This is an excellent conversation – fun, edgy, informative. Kara Swisher is the best tech journalist and Trevor Noah is a great interviewer (and quite a techie!).
PS – long form interviews are a hidden gem in the TikTok era. Put on some headphones and take a walk, do some chores, or whatever works for you.
@51 minutes, 27 seconds: “The reason my book was called Burn Book, A Love Story – a tech love story. I love tech. I’m just pissed at what they did to it. Pissed that they had to take all the juicy bits for themselves rather than look, the internet was built by the US government and it was paid for by the US taxpayer, but who made all the money? A small group of largely white men, right? That’s what happened there, right? In fact, almost to [one] person. And I don’t understand why everybody doesn’t benefit from the fruits of this amazing technology except for a small group of people. And I don’t understand why a small group of people gets to decide everything for the rest of us. Why didn’t they ever have any regulation? Why wasn’t there any input by citizens on so much of this stuff around privacy? Why do they design things that are so damaging to people? Why can’t they NOT do that? And also and why don’t they lean into the good parts and mitigate the bad parts? Why do they not care about the bad parts and don’t feel it’s their responsibility?”
TUNING Design Co. 