The sexist dinosaurs aren't only on the prowl in old media

Last week, Caitlin Jenner and a robot called Sophia talked about what it means to be human and a woman. Yet, while the 60,000-strong audience they addressed at a tech-friendly Web Summit in Lisbon appeared cutting edge, their industry is in danger of inheriting elements of the old industries they consider part of a dinosaur age. Sexism and homophobia in Hollywood, the media and politics has been exposed by recent scandals. It is normally newspapers that are compared to the extinct monsters of the past by Silicon Valley types. One hundred and 98 local newspapers have closed in Britain alone in little over a decade.