“We are about to get a whole bunch of books and think pieces that blame tech for a lot of stuff going wrong and how we could have been so wrong about social media, and I feel like some of my work is going to be used to make that argument,” she said. “I want to be clear first that tech is not the problem. It’s a tool like any other tool.” We have just become so overwhelmed by the number of people and feelings and conversations this tool opens us up to that we’ve squandered our emotional energy, argues Headlee. She encourages people to establish common ground and try to combat the “horizontal”
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