Glenn Beck
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Appearances Over Time
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The question isn't whether powerful technology is powerful.
Is technology powerful?
Yeah, it always has been powerful.
The nuclear weapon.
The question always is who governs the power?
Who controls the power?
Who benefits from the power?
Who's protected from the power?
That's not a new question.
That's the oldest political question there is.
The founders wrestled with it too.
Not about algorithms, but about governments, empires, majorities, human nature itself.
How do you prevent concentrated power from crushing individual dignity?
Well, their answer wasn't perfect.
but it was profound.
Checks and balances, consent of the governed, limits on authority, rights that exist before the government arrives and remain after the government leaves.
The technology will change over and over again.
Technology changes, but the question remains.
So now we're back to the well, because eventually every discussion about the future ends there at the well.
Why does a human being matter?