I’m not sure if people who don’t follow the tech industry get this — a few months ago, it was unimaginable<br />that Kalanick, who has overwhelming control of the company, could ever be pressured to step away.<br />But other stuff, like the experimental system that seeks to identify online conversation and other natural language<br />that points to terrorism, won’t work really well for years.<br />Plus, he helped design Ethernet, the networking technology<br />that linked the Altos together — and now links all the machines in your office, not to mention the thousands of machines inside the giant data centers that feed all the internet apps you use.<br />Months after a former employee, Susan Fowler, detailed incidents of sexual harassment<br />and rampant misogyny at the company, the company announced a huge set of reforms to its culture and workplace practices.<br />Each Saturday, Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac, technology reporters at , review the week’s news, offering analysis<br />and maybe a joke or two about the most important developments in the tech industry.<br />And while he’s said he’s taking time off right now, I do wonder whether<br />that will hold true — especially since Uber is undergoing its most prolonged set of crises, um, ever.
