2020/12/03

Francis Tseng’s Big Tech Simulator Reveals Toxic Power Structures

“It wasn’t meant to say that Silicon Valley people are evil because I don’t think that is useful. The Founder exists to show that you’re going to adopt malicious behaviors within a certain context or situation.”
– American designer and researcher Francis Tseng, on the critique built into his tech start-up simulation The Founder (2016). “It’s not about removing a person from power,” Tseng explains. “It’s about effecting a more systemic change that doesn’t put people in a situation where malicious decisions are rational or necessary in a perverse way.”
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