How Should We React When New Tech Comes to Town? | Technopolis

When a new tech innovation arrives in our city, we can't always know what its impacts will be before it floods the market. And yet, increasingly, some city governments and residents are having a particularly strong reaction to certain kinds of tech startups: Shut. It. Down. Is that the right reaction? Why exactly is that our impulse? And does it even matter what kind of tech we're talking about?

In this episode of Technopolis, Molly Turner and Jim Kapsis examine what happens when a new tech idea creeps into one of the most fundamental parts of society: Housing.

They examine the case of tech start-up Rentberry, a rental bidding platform, in Seattle. We talk with Desiree Fields, an expert on the relationship between digital platforms and housing at the University of Sheffield; and Nick Carr, acclaimed author of many books on the unexpected ways tech is messing with our lives.

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