Should we be worried about technology? | The Economist

The covid-19 pandemic has reinforced humanity’s dependence on modern tech, but the same tools that enable remote working are also being used to spread disinformation and perpetuate cybercrime. Ambivalence towards technology is nothing new. Read more of our coverage of Science & technology: See our Technology Quarterlies: Why is pessimism about the impact of technology nothing new? Listen to our weekly podcast on vaccine technology: Listen to our podcast “Babbage: Early warning” on future of pandemics: Why is Israel the winner of the vaccination race? How has covid-19 brought together biomedical technologies: How the pandemic has accelerated existing trends of technological adoption: How the pandemic has embraced digitalisation in medicine