Audrey Watters

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A response (in part) to P. L. Thomas’s article, “The Betsy DeVos Dilemma: 14 March 2018,” which cited a couple of my tweets: I didn’t watch the 60 Minutes interview with Betsy DeVos – just the clips that folks shared on Twitter. But even based on the few snippets that...

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The New York Times’ Adam Baidawi talked to me about a new private school startup in Australia, Luminaria. I had a lot more to say than what appears in print (not surprisingly). From “Why This Tech Executive Says Her Plan to Disrupt Education Is Different”: “I was kind of impressed...

I was a guest on Marketplace last week for a quick chat with Molly Wood about what I’ve dubbed the “tech regrets industry.” “Should We Trust Silicon Valley To Fix Itself?” (Betteridge’s Law of Headlines – and history and common sense – tell us the answer is “no.”)

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Silicon Valley has lost some of its shine in recent months, what with the “fake news” and the bots and the hacks and the hate speech. All the promises about the democratization of information and power ring a little hollow nowadays. I’d say they rang a little hollow all along....