{"id":1840,"date":"2014-06-18T11:19:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T18:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2014-06-18T11:19:22","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T18:19:22","slug":"how-silicon-valleys-disruptors-defend-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/06\/how-silicon-valleys-disruptors-defend-themselves.html","title":{"rendered":"How Silicon Valley&#8217;s Disruptors Defend Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;CoNTgysgG97fFP472ViQZnWcE75qU22x&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>I EXPECT the big car companies were as defensive, back when reformers suggested seat belts and the like, as digital-disruptor types are when they receive any bit of criticism. In this case, the Silicon Valley types lash back that anyone who doesn&#8217;t buy their cyber-utopian vision is &#8220;anti-technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Salon&#8217;s Andrew Leonard gets into this quite well in a short <a title=\"Leonard on &quot;disruption&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/06\/16\/the_emperor_of_disruption_theory_is_wearing_no_clothes\/\" target=\"_blank\">piece<\/a> about the digital boys&#8217; reception to Jill Lepore&#8217;s recent <a title=\"Lepore on disruption\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2014\/06\/23\/140623fa_fact_lepore?currentPage=all\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/140623_2014_p154.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1841\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/140623_2014_p154.jpg\" alt=\"CV1_TNY_06_23_14Booth.indd\" width=\"154\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>. She argues that &#8220;disruption theory&#8221; is full of holes and bad assumptions, and was immediately tarred as a Luddite. Here&#8217;s Leonard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s possible to be critical of the way Silicon Valley is agitating for regulatory reform that is designed to nurture Silicon Valley business models without being \u201canti-technology.\u201d It\u2019s possible to explore the question of how the current pace of technological innovation is affecting jobs and inequality without being anti-technology. It is possible to be critical of how, in the current moment, technology appears to be serving the interest of the owners of capital at the expense of workers without being anti-technology. It\u2019s even possible to love one\u2019s smartphone and the Internet while at the same time critiquing run-amok \u201cchange the world\u201d hype.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole fight reminds me of something Paul Krugman has said: The enthusiasts of creative destruction always think it will be someone else getting destroyed. Someday, it will be their turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;CoNTgysgG97fFP472ViQZnWcE75qU22x&#8221;] I EXPECT the big car companies were as defensive, back when reformers suggested seat belts and the like, as digital-disruptor types are when they receive any bit of criticism. In this case, the Silicon Valley types lash back that anyone who doesn&#8217;t buy their cyber-utopian vision is &#8220;anti-technology.&#8221; Salon&#8217;s Andrew Leonard gets into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,86,289],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-internet","7":"category-technology","8":"category-the-new-yorker","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}