We All Live Downstream
When building innovations in tech, infrastructure, policy or work, we need to consider the downstream effects of the things we build, and stop allowing the future to pay for our mistakes.
In the essay The super-empowered individual, Brian Morrissey writes about how the dire warnings of some about globalization of the late 90s and early oughts were largely “hand waved away” (his phrase) because the people profiting were, largely, themselves (or their donors) and the people being hurt were largely forgotten and not “politically powerful”.
