The Day People-Centered Technology Died

When Governor George Deukmejian killed California’s Office of Appropriate Technology in 1983 it marked the end of government efforts to make sure new technologies improve our lives. It’s been all about the Benjamins ever since.

Hal Plotkin
Digital Diplomacy
Published in
8 min readJul 16, 2020

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“Money” by Ervins Strauhmanis is licensed under CC BY 2.0

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Hal Plotkin
Digital Diplomacy

Hal Plotkin is a Senior Scholar at ISKME, in HMB, CA. Senior Advisor, U.S. Dept of Ed (2009-14) and Senior Open Policy Fellow, Creative Commons USA (2014-2017)