How a small Spanish town gave the tech giants a lesson in empowerment
It is often said that technologists are the new rock stars, though what they lack in glamour they make up for in a profound influence on how we live and interact with the world.
Two weeks ago I was in the Spanish city of Granada at what claims to be the world's first conference dedicated to Twitter, where the now departed CEO Dick Costolo appeared on stage to a standing ovation before he had even started speaking. Costolo later said the reception is always the same, even when he visited journalism students in China - a country that blocks Twitter. It is a shame tech firms don't look outwards more often; it is a mark of the tunnel vision of American tech companies that they still call staff "international" if they deal with any countries other than the US.
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