[TASC Luncheon] It’s Time for a Technology Dividend
Robert Kirby
341 CASTRO STREET, MOUNTAIN VIEW
March 12th, 11:45 am
Chris Benner, PhD March 12
It’s Time for a Technology Dividend
Chris Benner is a professor of environmental studies and sociology, and director of the Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation at UC Santa Cruz. In a recent report co-authored with USC professor Manuel Pastor titled “From Resistance to Renewal: A 12-Step Program for Innovation and Inclusion in the California Economy,” professor Benner first highlights the inequalities hidden beneath the glitter of the Golden State and then outlines an economic reboot designed to promote greater equality and inclusion.
Professor Benner will give an overview of the report findings (including the little-known truth that public-sector investment has played a key role in the technological advances driving our economy), and then outline the proposal for a technology dividend, modeled after programs like the Permanent Fund Dividend that pays Alaska residents an annual dividend funded by oil revenues.
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Join Us March 12 for our Regan Lecture:
"Silicon Valley and the Challenge of Ethics: Prognosis for a Sick Patient"
New York Times tech columnist Kara Swisher speaks on the ethical
Many commentators have said that Silicon Valley today faces its greatest
ethical challenge ever. But no one has been on top of this story as much
as Kara Swisher, the celebrated tech journalist who played herself in an
episode of the HBO series “Silicon Valley” and whose work has long drawn
national attention. The Ethics Center is delighted to have Swisher as
our distinguished Regan Lecturer for the 2018-19 academic year.
This event is co-sponsored by the High Tech Law Institute of the Santa
Clara University School of Law and the Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley,
and is part of the “IT, Ethics, and Law” lecture series. The Regan
Lectures are funded by the New York Life Insurance Company in honor of
William Regan III.
March 12, 2019
7 - 8:30 p.m.
Charney Hall Room 103
Santa Clara University
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