He argues Silicon Valley is not the real source of innovation; the American military funded the underlying technologies that became personal computers and the internet.
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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Modern tech firms are presented as inheritors of the same strategy: public U.S. military technology is handed to trusted fronts so surveillance appears voluntary and private.
Jiang argues that firms which treat employees with respect and strip out scientific management thrive because they encourage people to act as creative individuals rather than managed animals.
He says major tech companies have made businesses more willing to discuss empathy, and he frames his school as a lab and showcase for what an empathy-centered culture can accomplish in education.
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"Perfect Red Heifers And What people say The rumor is that These Red Heifers Have been sacrificed already So now they're getting ready To..."
"They spent billions of dollars to develop this technology. And then what happened was this technology became smaller and smaller, and so much smaller..."
"...societies that's reeling control, okay? Sorry. All right, another example is Google. So, the American military spent billions of dollars, trillions of dollars of..."
"...billionaire in America. Yeah, yeah. It's all just a scam, right? Google. It's all just a scam, okay? What you need to understand about..."
"...that is public, okay? The internet, it's a U.S. military technology. Google, these search engines, it's all U.S. military technology. And they were given..."
"...that treat their employers with respect, um, you know, companies like Google and Apple and, and Facebook and which basically encourage them to be..."
"...willing to discuss empathy Because of what Microsoft what Apple what Google were able to accomplish if it weren't for these companies then then..."
"...about like what's happening with like bubbles or something um let's google this okay"
"it's called indra's pearl okay can you google this players indra pearl okay all right uh or android's injured web is that web okay..."
"...Virgil. Dante only knows about Riffius because of Virgil. Can we Google this? Let's Google Riffius and see what comes up, okay? Oh. Okay,..."
"...think it's still there. It's really strange, okay? But you can Google phantom limbs. It's a very common psychological thing, okay? But the idea..."
"...you guys know? Or we can call it cortex. Okay, let's Google it."
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