An eight-year-old girl heard strange noises coming from her bedroom. When she went to see what it was, she heard a man’s voice speaking to her through the Amazon Ring her parents had just installed in her room.
If you’ve been to MozFest before, you know it’s different from other conferences. If you haven’t… well, it’s hard to describe the whirl of people and ideas, those sparks of curiosity and connection, and the vibe — that buzzing, dynamic, positive energy. You can feel it spilling out of sessions into hallways and stairwells, fueling lunchtime conversations and late night karaoke adventures, propelling participants from session to session and floor to floor on a madcap journey of discovery and invention.
Later this month, Mozilla will release the second full length Internet Health Report, which looks at where technology is making our lives and the world better — and where it’s making things worse. More often than not, new online technology does both — makes things better and worse. Therefore, it’s critical that we constantly look at what is happening in tech and ask: how do we want this to play out for humanity?
