New Year's resolutions for big tech: how Silicon Valley can be better in 2018

Tech is one of the richest and most powerful industries in America - and it gets an awful lot wrong. So here's some seasonal advice for Silicon Valley's biggest beasts

New Year's resolutions are crap. The entire exercise is rife with failure and self-loathing, and you, dearest, have no need to make any. You are already reading the Guardian. You are perfect exactly the way you are.

Infinitely more fun than reflecting on one's own shortcomings is diagnosing the problems of other, richer, more powerful entities. It is in that spirit that we have created a list of New Year's resolutions for the tech industry. Our resolution will be to continue doing our best to hold them to account, which, like the most successful resolutions, is what we were already planning to do anyway.