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How tech started was as a democratizing force
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How tech started was as a democratizing force, as a force for good, as an ability for...

iHuman • 2019
How tech started was as a democratizing force, as a force for good, as an ability for humans to interact with each other without gatekeepers

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How tech started was as a democratizing force,
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as a force for good, as an ability for humans
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to interact with each other without gatekeepers.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
21
Timestamp in Movie
00:22:12
Uploaded
Jun 06, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

The documentary follows the booming artificial intelligence industry, what opportunities and challenges it brings and its impact on the global community.
There's never been a bigger experiment - iHuman 00:06
There's never been a bigger experiment
You would assume that it would be for the better, - iHuman 00:11
You would assume that it would be for the better,
One company, Facebook, is responsible - iHuman 00:07
One company, Facebook, is responsible
This is global information economy - iHuman 00:08
This is global information economy
(bell ringing) (crowd cheering) - iHuman 00:10
(bell ringing) (crowd cheering)
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook. - iHuman 00:06
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook.
It's staggering how, in probably just 10 years, - iHuman 00:15
It's staggering how, in probably just 10 years,
These little bits and bytes are really the new currency. - iHuman 00:06
These little bits and bytes are really the new currency.
The way that data is monetized - iHuman 00:06
The way that data is monetized
Google has every amount of information available. - iHuman 00:04
Google has every amount of information available.
Your search history alone can tell you - iHuman 00:08
Your search history alone can tell you
So we've seen Google and Facebook - iHuman 00:10
So we've seen Google and Facebook
It sounds really mundane, but they're high tech ad brokers. - iHuman 00:05
It sounds really mundane, but they're high tech ad...
And the reason they're so profitable is that they're using - iHuman 00:18
And the reason they're so profitable is that...
One of the problems with technology - iHuman 00:05
One of the problems with technology
The way these companies design these things - iHuman 00:05
The way these companies design these things
They want to become essentially a slot machine of attention. - iHuman 00:05
They want to become essentially a slot machine of attention.
So you're always paying attention, - iHuman 00:06
So you're always paying attention,
When somebody controls what you read, - iHuman 00:05
When somebody controls what you read,
You get more of what you've seen before and liked before, - iHuman 00:12
You get more of what you've seen before and liked...