{"id":86368,"date":"2019-01-04T00:42:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T08:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/the-2018-good-tech-awards"},"modified":"2019-01-04T00:42:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T08:42:10","slug":"the-2018-good-tech-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/the-2018-good-tech-awards","title":{"rendered":"The 2018 Good Tech Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-2018-good-tech-awards2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that this was a horrible year for many of the tech industry\u2019s biggest companies. Amazon held a nationwide beauty pageant for its new headquarters, raising hopes that the company would help transform a struggling city, then <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/11\/05\/technology\/amazon-second-headquarters-split.html?module=inline\" title=\"\">picked<\/a> the two places that needed it the least. Executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter got hauled before Congress to apologize for * <em class=\"\">gestures wildly in all directions<\/em>*. One of Uber\u2019s self-driving cars <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/03\/20\/us\/self-driving-uber-pedestrian-killed.html?module=inline\" title=\"\">killed someone<\/a>. And then there was <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/16\/business\/elon-musk-interview-tesla.html?module=inline\" title=\"\">Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the tech sector is more than its giants.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/27\/technology\/tech-roundup-2017.html?module=inline\" title=\"\">handed out<\/a> \u201cgood tech\u201d awards to a handful of companies, nonprofit organizations and people who used technology to help others in real, tangible ways. The goal was to shine a spotlight on a few less-heralded projects that may not get front-page headlines or billions of dollars in funding, but are actually trying to fulfill the tech industry\u2019s stated goal of improving the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/21\/technology\/year-in-technology-2018.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/21\/technology\/year-in-technology-2018.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s true that this was a horrible year for many of the tech industry\u2019s biggest companies. Amazon held a nationwide beauty pageant for its new headquarters, raising hopes that the company would help transform a struggling city, then picked the two places that needed it the least. Executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter got hauled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1490,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86368","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=86368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}