How to create a healthy society

Microsoft Research’s danah boyd has been given an award by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and gave a magnificent speech on her experience as a women in technology. My favorite part is about how to create a healthy society:

“Move fast and break things” is an abomination if your goal is to create a healthy society. Taking shortcuts may be financially profitable in the short-term, but the cost to society is too great to be justified. In a healthy society, we accommodate differently-abled people through accessibility standards, not because it’s financially prudent but because it’s the right thing to do. In a healthy society, we make certain that the vulnerable amongst us are not harassed into silence because that is not the value behind free speech. In a healthy society, we strategically design to increase social cohesion because binaries are machine logic not human logic.