{"id":126165,"date":"2021-08-12T20:23:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T03:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/should-we-be-worried-about-technology-the-economist"},"modified":"2021-08-12T20:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T03:23:15","slug":"should-we-be-worried-about-technology-the-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/should-we-be-worried-about-technology-the-economist","title":{"rendered":"Should we be worried about technology? | The Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zeza83WlXxg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The covid-19 pandemic has reinforced humanity\u2019s dependence on modern tech, but the same tools that enable remote working are also being used to spread disinformation and perpetuate cybercrime. Ambivalence towards technology is nothing new.<\/p>\n<p>Read more of our coverage of Science &amp; technology: <a href=\"https:\/\/econ.st\/3CdkVa5\">https:\/\/econ.st\/3CdkVa5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See our Technology Quarterlies: <a href=\"https:\/\/econ.st\/3jldAN6\">https:\/\/econ.st\/3jldAN6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why is pessimism about the impact of technology nothing new? <a href=\"https:\/\/econ.st\/3Cfme8B\">https:\/\/econ.st\/3Cfme8B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen to our weekly podcast on vaccine technology: <a href=\"https:\/\/econ.st\/3joucn8\">https:\/\/econ.st\/3joucn8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Listen to our podcast \u201cBabbage: Early warning\u201d on future of pandemics: <a href=\"https:\/\/econ.st\/2TSfgoz.\">https:\/\/econ.st\/2TSfgoz.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/should-we-be-worried-about-technology-the-economist\">Continue reading \u201cShould we be worried about technology? | The Economist\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The covid-19 pandemic has reinforced humanity\u2019s dependence on modern tech, but the same tools that enable remote working are also being used to spread disinformation and perpetuate cybercrime. Ambivalence towards technology is nothing new. Read more of our coverage of Science &amp; technology: https:\/\/econ.st\/3CdkVa5 See our Technology Quarterlies: https:\/\/econ.st\/3jldAN6 Why is pessimism about the impact [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}