and then we've got john von wayman was a mentor of minsky and is responsible for the underlying architecture of every computer everywhere and then we've got larry page and circuit, the founders of google. what do these folks have in common? they are dudes. what else? they are white dudes. anything else? how about their background? they are english-speaking. anything else about the educational background? they are math guys. these are white dudes mathematical backgrounds from western countries. they have short hair. are white, and they are ivy leaguers more or less. there is nothing wrong with being an ivy league educated white dude mathematician. some of my best friends in fact, ivy league educated white dude mathematicians. but there's a problem here, which is that everybody embeds their own biases in technology. people embed the own biases in technology. so when we have a small and homogeneous group of people making decisions about technology for the whole world, we have run into problems. we also have another phenomenon that happens in groups. that phenomena is called positive asymmetry,