Yeah. Technology. What is it all about?

There's going to be a handful of companies with a ton of power, and they're going to have to be held accountable, but they're also going to have to have good enlightened leadership.

And in some cases, I think they will. And on some of these really critical issues regarding democracy, we're going to have to hope for some really enlightened leadership from a handful of

very, very powerful global tech executives. I wish I had more faith in Zuckerberg or Elon

Mos. I was going to say, I was waiting for you to say Zuckerberg because...

No, I don't trust them. I don't trust those guys. I think the track record is pretty clear.

Hello and welcome to Danny in the Valley, your very last episode of 2023.

We made it another year.

Incredible.

Thank all of you for listening, for the ratings, for the reviews, for sharing the pod with others.

It really is a pleasure and an honor to show up every week for you to try to track down the very best

guests, the most intriguing stories, the most consequential technologies, and talk about them

in a way that leaves you smarter or more insightful than when you hit play. That's my goal,

week in, week out. So hopefully that is what this pod does for you. And to that end, this week, we have a great guest to close out the year.

Jim Steyer is the founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, which is the largest advocacy group

working on tech impact on kids in society in general.

And I wanted to have him on because, you know, he's been working on tech's impact on kids and society in general. And I wanted to have him on because,

you know, he's been working on this for a very long time. And because 2024 is going to be a very

big year for tech, for democracy, and for tech's impact on democracy.

So globally, they're going to be more than 40 national elections with some estimated about 2 billion people going to the polls, including, of course, America, Britain, India,

countless other countries.

We have a surge of populace like Donald Trump.

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