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Silicon Valley sells snake oil ‘solutions’. The Democratic party fell for them | Siva Vaidhyanathan

If the Democrats take one lesson from Iowa, it should be that simple, dependable technology is better than flimsy, new technology

As I write this sentence I have no idea which candidates prevailed in the Democratic caucuses held in Iowa on Monday. That’s fine with me.

We don’t know the results because the Iowa Democratic party fell into the same mania that has twisted the American economy, culture and political world for almost 40 years: the thoughtless pursuit of immediate gratification through the expensive installation of complex, fragile technological systems.

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