[andyl]

The tech industry isn't perfect - not by a long shot.

But tech companies aren't putting the climate at risk. Tech companies didn't crash the economy. Over the past decades there isn't another industry that has delivered more growth and value.

The grave threat is to non-credible Media who deal in link-bait and manufactured controversy.

[drhayes9]

I think an important distinction here is that the greatest value the tech industry creates is monetary value. There are others measures of value that it doesn't exceed at.

I'm not one to say that all tech innovation has ceased, but I would love to see more startups addressing the rest of the world's real problems: starvation, poverty, water, oppressive governments. Otherwise we are playing our part in ensuring a grim meathook future: http://zenarchery.com/full-text-of-the-grim-meathook-future-...

Besides, the tech industry didn't crash the economy -- but we sure had a lot of fun benefiting from large-scale economic speculation that came from it the first time.

[gaius]

I guess you are too young to remember the NASDAQ meltdown of '01. The recovery from that wasn't a real recovery at all, it was the housing bubble of '08. So we are still feeling the aftershocks .