There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

A revisit of a 2016 argument that the label 'tech industry' is a misleading oversimplification. The largest tech companies — Meta, Apple, Netflix, Google, Amazon — have almost nothing in common in terms of business model, products, or culture, yet grouping them under one label obscures their enormous, cross-sector power. Today, tech permeates every industry, making the shorthand even less useful and more dangerous. The piece argues that treating these companies as a narrow sector allows them to avoid accountability, and urges people to demand specificity when discussing 'tech' in policy, career, and public discourse.