The document explores various perspectives on technology's impact on society, particularly its role in shaping work, communication, and personal lives. It highlights issues like the underrepresentation of women in tech, the overwhelming nature of information, and privacy concerns in a digital world. The text emphasizes the complex relationship between technological advances and their societal consequences, including job displacement and the addictive nature of certain technologies.

1. Tech and Internet Industry News
Transforming the original transistor into the devices that adorn the Apple Watch didn't require one
advance, or ten advances, or even a hundred advances -- it took decades of effort by thousands of
scientists and engineers in academic and industrial labs across the U.S.
Melissa A. Hines
Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Cornell Center for Materials Research
Rabbi Jason Miller
Entrepreneur, Educator, Writer and Technologist - "Rabbi Without Borders"
JavaScript is everywhere. From fancy reactive interface elements on a website to nifty features in
robust offline-capable, geolocation-based web applications - JavaScript powers them all. But its
usefulness is not limited to the front-end alone.
Jonha Revesencio
Business strategist exploring the intersection of business, leadership and technology
Amazon chose not to be interviewed for the story. In the antiquated thinking of crisis management, a
target should sit down with its attacker to "tell its side of the story."
The Internet is a behemoth, and it's growing every day. So how is a child to make sense of it all?
How can she find what she needs as she writes, say, a school report on the solar system? Dr. Eleni
Mitsakaki is trying to help.
The modern malaise of technology is usually framed in terms of how it affects us as social beings, or
how it allows work to bleed into our personal lives. But in both work and our social lives, technology
often serves as a memory aid.
This won't be a popular answer, but if you are talking about technology startups in Silicon Valley,
then the answer is yes, you probably are hurting your chances.
Quora
The best answer to any question
According to the National Center for Female Women in Information Technology's April 2015 survey,
the U.S. computer science sector will have 1.2 million openings by 2022. Women currently represent
just 26% of the computer workforce and the numbers are even more dismal for women of color.
Beth Cone Kramer
Freelance Writer, Editor, Foodie, & Co-Author of "The Bachelor Girls Guide"

2. It's easy to see how disorganized information can cause chaos or frustration. Individuals and
companies today deal with more information inputs than ever before, and at times this abundance of
content can be distracting, overwhelming or even trigger anxiety.
This article is not intended as a dig at Facebook, but rather at the tech media. As with a good
majority of the stories they cover today, the tech media in this case merely piggybacked on each
other's headlines like vultures at the site of a kill.
Reid Wegley
National Media Relations Expert, Social Media Strategist
Self-restraint is not a characteristic of the companies developing robotics for businesses that want to
replace tens of millions of both white collar and blue collar jobs. Look at the latest factories,
refineries and warehouses to illustrate what is coming fast. Even the work of lawyers is being
automated.
The F-35 joint strike fighter, the United States' most expensive warplane to date, was supposed to
cost $1.5 trillion over 50 years. The current contract is seven years behind schedule and $163 billion
over budget. Here are four other things the US could have bought with the waste from the program.
Avi Yashchin
Sustainable Energy, Continuing Education, and Machine Learning Entrepreneur
While on the surface this may seem like a deserved day of reckoning for exposed adulterers, it
speaks to a much larger privacy issue that concerns everyone. We live our entire lives online, and
our actions there hinge on the promise of privacy.
Centuries of data may show us how jobs have been both destroyed and created, but recent decades
worth of more nuanced data more importantly show us there's more to this story.
Many technologies are created to be addictive. We're distracted and sometimes isolated within our
online social networks. At the same time, we have an entire population of people interacting with
one another, sometimes anonymously, who show no respect for one another.
Payam Zamani
Die-hard entrepreneur, Bahai, cofounder of Shout The Good (Shout.gd). Founder of Autoweb.com,
Reply.com, BahaiTeachings.org...
Life may be a bit shorter for these members, at least married life as they know it. Perhaps if they
had kept it in their pants, or had only shared it with their spouse, they wouldn't be in this mess.
Not all traffic is created equal, and you might be surprised to learn that a good portion of your site
traffic -- in some cases, well over half -- isn't even human, but bot traffic.
Jonha Revesencio

3. Business strategist exploring the intersection of business, leadership and technology
If I asked 100 people working in the larger Technology sector who Noel Lee was, I'm guessing less
than 10 would immediately recognize the name or be able to tell me what he's accomplished.
Bill_Robinson
Business, Technology, Entrepreneurship & Rock 'n Roll Journalist