Interactions between technology and society are complex.
Visionaries
Pragmatists
A chasm exists between these two groups of adopters.
You are a co-founder of Conveyance, a six-year old company that creates software and hardware customization packages for self-driving vehicles (SDVs).
Your product has garnered significant interest and adoption from early adopters in several markets. Investors are pleased with your performance and are now expecting exponential growth through wider adoption.
D-Day Analogy (Allied invasion of Normandy during WWII)
In our increasingly data-driven world, companies use algorithms to assist in decision making and optimization of a variety of outcomes.
Concerns arise when algorithms produce outcomes that disadvantage or privilege a certain group of people based on characteristics such as gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, therefore discriminating against that group.
While some forms of discrimination is illegal, others are lawful, and laws are not necessarily consistent across countries.
Promotion
Pricing
Price discrimination is often explained by perceived behavioural differences (young women drivers are less risky than young men drivers; people with higher income are more likely to repay the loan, etc.) - but behavioural differences are often correlated with characteristics such as age, gender, race, or ethnicity.
Pricing
Product