The Tech Company Town: When Corporations Replace the State - Dr. Herb Lin, Stanford's Hoover Institute

Did you think the world's richest entities were governments? Think again! 71 of the richest 100 organizations are corporations, not countries. Is a high-tech version of the old-tech company town in store for humans? This week is all about trying to answer what seems like a simple question - would you want to live in a town that's run by the government, or one that's run by a bright and shiny high-tech giant? Cyber-security expert Herb Lin joins us to talk about what that world might look like, and also sheds some light on what a corporate internet means for dwindling freedoms on the internet, the price that humans have to pay in return for security, and the difficulty of establishing consistent, robust standards for something as complex as the internet. In return for security, humans of the future might find themselves living in the tech generation’s version of a company town. ªº¬˚∆≤≥≤≥ Join the mailing list http://eepurl.com/gRUCZL ≤≥≤≥∆˚¬ºª Join us on a journey to the inner workings of the human mind, the hidden appeal of incentive-driven reasoning, and a few suggestions for how to stay away from these cognitive traps. Stick around for part 2, where we speak with Dr. Christopher French, professor of Anomalistic Psychology at the University of London. ªº¬˚∆≤≥≤≥ Subscribe & Ring the bell to study the Secrets of the Universe ≤≥≤≥∆˚¬ºª EPISODE LINKS: Dr. Lin Website: https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/people/herbert_lin Dr. Lin Written Works: https://www.hoover.org/profiles/herbert-lin Dr. Lin Twitter: https://twitter.com/herblincyber?lang=en Episode notes on Youtube @ https://youtu.be/elO-cvIbijI We wrote and performed the music in this episode!  Shilo Delay:  https://soundcloud.com/laterisgone​   And everywhere else (Spotify, etc..)  https://g.co/kgs/fc8WbA