What's Next, Jimmy? (Jimmy Wales) | DLD All Stars

Speaker:
Jimmy Wales,
Founder and Chair Emeritus, Board of Trustees, Wikimedia Foundation

In his DLD All Stars presentation, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales analyzes the current technology landscape and explains what separates “good tech” from “bad tech” – regarding its influence on society. He takes a critical look at social media as well and explains what makes the attention economy dangerous. “Let’s recognize that addictive technologies are like junk food for the mind”, Wales argues.

In response, he started WT.Social, a social network that aims to be different. “It’s not about keeping people outraged keeping people clicking, keeping people scrolling”, Wales explains. Instead, WT.Social aims for true engagement, in a more civil manner.

DLD All Stars is our virtual kick-off event to the DLD year. On February 21-23 we hosted inspirational speakers and role models from 15 years of DLD history. They gave us their call-to-action for 2021 in accordance with this year’s DLD motto, “What the World Needs Now

The DLD Conference channel features all talks held at past conferences and our digital format DLD Sync as well as the highlights of our events.

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What’s next? Complete betrayal of the people. He is disgusting.