MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Pushing Back on Pervasive Technology

Innovators and leaders must consider how new technology will be monitored to prevent against potential harmful and irreversible effects.

Nothing illustrates our need to think differently about how we manage technology better than Facebook. Recent criticism in the media reflects not only a condemnation of the company’s actions, but a powerful backlash against tech as a whole. Indeed, beyond the immediate issues raised around data privacy and security, deeper investigations into Facebook’s practices illustrate the dangers inherent in our uncritical acceptance of and unbridled addiction to technology.

About the Author

Ian I. Mitroff (@mitroffcrisis), formerly the Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, is now a senior research affiliate at The Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at UC Berkeley and the president of Mitroff Crisis Management. He is the author of the book Technology Run Amok: Crisis Management in the Digital Age (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2018).

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