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Google instantly answers even the most inane questions; Amazon delivers almost every product under the sun; Facebook connects people to friends halfway across the world. These companies are so ubiquitous you hardly question them – until a major data breach occurs, a robot takes your job or a foreign power interferes in your presidential election. The stars of the tech industry are monopolies with little accountability, and they often have deleterious effects on society. Thankfully, as Information Studies professor Ramesh Srinivasan explains in Beyond the Valley, better alternatives exist.
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Ramesh Srinivasan is a UCLA professor and the founder of the Digital Cultures Lab.
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