The Costs of Tech Policy Inaction
Regulatory skeptics make a fundamental mistake in assuming that the United States can freely choose between greater state intervention in digital markets and a continued laissez-faire approach.
Regulatory skeptics make a fundamental mistake in assuming that the United States can freely choose between greater state intervention in digital markets and a continued laissez-faire approach.
American Compass research director Wells King discusses the wide-ranging effects of the digital revolution in an adaptation ofĀ Lost in the Super Market: Navigating the Digital Age.
Are we the passive victims of rapacious technology? Or fully knowledgeable about how technology works and in control of its role in our lives?
The problems and challenges posed by what is often referred to as āBig Techā should primarily be understood as novel instantiations of age-old issues.
Micah Meadowcroft discusses the questions raised about privacy and freedom by our collection,Ā Lost in the Super Market: Navigating the Digital Age.
Rachel Bovard highlights American Compassās Lost in the Super Market collection in a discussion of how public policy must be rethought in light of the digital revolution.
American Compass executive director Oren Cass joins Rising to discuss the digital eraās effects on the market and our collection Lost in the Super Market: Navigating the Digital Age
If you are a freelancer like a lawyer or a doctor with a private practice, your experience is very different from a freelancer or contractor accessing work through online labor platforms like Upwork, Clickworker, Uber, or Amazonās Mechanical Turk.
Alec Stapp (Progressive Policy Institute) and Wells King (American Compass) discuss the implications of āAll-Knowing Algorithmsā with Oren Cass.
Matthew Crawford (UVAās Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss the ramifications of the āAttention Economyā with Wells King (American Compass).
American Compass executive director Oren Cass makes the case for disaggregating the Big Tech debate and givingĀ greater focus to the digital ageās novel challenges.
Wingham Rowan (Modern Markets for All) and Neil Chilson (Charles Koch Institute) discuss the advent of frictionless exchange with Wells King (American Compass).
Navigating the Digital Age
PRESS RELEASEāModern technology has reshaped markets fundamentally, requiring new policy responses to protect our values, institutions, and relationships.
Digital mediaās critics echo the same arguments and attitudes of paternalists past.
Attention-harvesting technologies jeopardize our capacity to governĀ concentrated powerāand ourselves.
What happens to media as the digital age enhances their ability to engage consumers?
A pragmatic view of privacy should encourage data collection that benefits users and innovators alike.
The use and abuse of personal data pose a collective challenge that cannot beĀ solved by individuals.
What happens to personal data as the digital age deepens their quality, widens their availability, and creates new uses for them?
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