Unintended Consequences in Silicon Valley

The tech industry has more to learn about its unforeseen effects on our daily lives

Ann Grimes
OneZero
Published in
5 min readApr 8, 2019

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Interstate 280 in Sunnyvale, CA. Credit: Jonathan Clark/Getty Images

SSpring break is a stretch that affords some of us in Silicon Valley a moment to pause and reflect. Driving around during my downtime, I was caught off guard as an older, gray Chevy sped by with a digital billboard attached to its roof. The word “byte” in…

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Ann Grimes
OneZero

Ann Grimes is Director of Journalism Fellowships at the Starling Lab for Data Integrity@ Stanford and a Lecturer at the Hasso Plattner School of Design.