The Year in Technology: Eight Charts for 2019
The good, the bad and the ugly about the rapidly changing digital world.
Amazon, Apple, TikTok and unicorns lead the headlines.
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Technology continues to change everything in both hopeful and harmful ways. As in prior years, Bloomberg Opinion is assessing the eight top themes in technology for 2019 and what they tell us about the industry and beyond. Here’s the list, in reverse order of importance:
8) Fractures Inside Tech Companies: It’s hard to know how widespread it is, but there are more signs of tech worker discontent with their bosses and with each other. Some technology employees are speaking up about what they believe are workplace inequities or destructive company decisions in areas such as harmful online activity, environmental damage and tech products’ use by government entities. In a potent symbol of the fissures of ideals meeting the reality of large organizations, Google management ended its weekly question-and-answer session with employees.