{"id":74766,"date":"2017-12-31T01:42:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T09:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/some-things-about-tech-were-good-in-2017-no-really"},"modified":"2018-01-07T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T20:14:41","slug":"some-things-about-tech-were-good-in-2017-no-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/some-things-about-tech-were-good-in-2017-no-really","title":{"rendered":"Some Things About Tech Were Good in 2017. No, Really"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/some-things-about-tech-were-good-in-2017-no-really.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But tech wasn\u2019t all bad this year. As many of Silicon Valley\u2019s largest companies were wreaking havoc, numerous people and organizations used technology to advance important causes and address large-scale problems.<\/p>\n<p>These projects do not always make headlines, but they show what\u2019s possible when technologists use their powers for good. So I\u2019m presenting the first-ever Actually Good Tech Awards, to highlight a handful of tech efforts that produced real societal benefits this year.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Amid a series of scandals and sins, a few righteous tech innovators actually brought positive change this year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/27\/technology\/tech-roundup-2017.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/27\/technology\/tech-roundup-2017.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But tech wasn\u2019t all bad this year. As many of Silicon Valley\u2019s largest companies were wreaking havoc, numerous people and organizations used technology to advance important causes and address large-scale problems. These projects do not always make headlines, but they show what\u2019s possible when technologists use their powers for good. So I\u2019m presenting the first-ever [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74766","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=74766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74846,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74766\/revisions\/74846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}