The technological promise of Silicon Valley has become a nightmare

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Promise of technology
has become a nightmare

At the end of the 1960s and 90s, the emergence of Silicon Valley was greeted as a window on a brilliant future. We have considerably thought of these many technological entrepreneurs and their young technical workers, whose dreams and ideas have fueled many innovations that have improved our lives.

However, more recently, Silicon Valley has become a disturbing source of concern. The formerly positive humanitarian dreams of its entrepreneurs, who were now delighted with billions of their portfolios, have turned into nightmarish aspirations for power and control. Their technology is no longer intended to provide jobs and increase the standard of living for everyone, but instead, to eliminate jobs through things such as AI, driver -free cars and information algorithms. Instead of holding a new useful product in the air, they agitate chainsaws on stage in a sadistic dance of hatred towards the work of others.

Young technicians are now committed to the dismantling of our institutions, without improving them.

Robert Thomas
Castro valley

Only Lee has a severity
Direct Oakland

As a long -standing resident of Oakland and former member of the Council, I know that Barbara Lee is the best choice to be our next mayor. I was proud of her to have represented us at Congress for so many years and I am delighted with what she can do as mayor. His achievements at the federal levels and states could not have occurred without his capacity to bring people together, even to disparate interests.

In recent weeks, she has already gathered business leaders and work to collaborate in the resolution of some of the most difficult challenges in the city. This is the kind of leadership that Oakland needs – someone who will bring us together to restore and rebuild. Barbara Lee is the only candidate for gravity to be able to do so.

Dan Kalb
Oakland

Oakland must get up
against anti -Semitism

Concerning: “Oakland leaders ignore the problem of city anti -Semitism(Page A8, March 9).

Thank you for Mark Cohen’s opinion play. The fact that more than 400 anti -Semitic graffiti incidents have occurred around Lake Merritt and Lakeshore within one year reveals the gravity and persistence of this problem. The highlighting of this worrying scheme ensures that the voices of our entire community – Jewish and not Jewish – are clearly heard.

The management of Oakland and the municipal council should take immediate measures by issuing a public sentence of anti -Semitism, by forming a dedicated anti -Semitism working group and by applying the existing laws against vandalism focused on hatred. Our managers must send a clear message that hatred has no place here.

Bruce Burger
Oakland

If Desaulnier will not fight,
Vote for a representative who

I supported the representative Mark Desaulnier in each election, but I will vote against him in the next primary unless he begins to retaliate. We are faced with an authoritarian takeover. Donald Trump, with a thin term, governs by decree, dismantling democratic institutions while the Democrats of the Chamber are assisted.

His record on education was strong, but as Trump empties the Ministry of Education, where is his outrage? Where are the press releases, the calls for urgent action? Instead, we obtain lukewarm declarations while federal workers are purged, civil freedoms are trampled on and democracy is shredded.

Leadership means taking risks. It means to retaliate. Some rare democrats physically confronted this destruction – why is it not standing with them? His silence is a bond. The democratic basis is done with Milquetoast policy. Go up when being replaced. We need warriors, not passers -by.

Jesse Mackinnon
Pleasant hill

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