As someone who works in the life sciences, I will come to the defense of my colleagues working in tech. A fair amount of life science progress is driven by innovations borne in tech. For instance, deep learning, and specifically GANS, is helping transform image analysis. Also the tech industry is making it possible to process the vast amounts of data produced in the life sciences. Hats off to you guys, great work, seriously.

I will say that some aspects of tech (I.e social media driven partisanship, surveillance capitalism, click-back attention stealing advertisement and ‘engagement’) is a (large) net negative, but hopefully over time we will better learn how to manage these negatives.