An Alternative History of Silicon Valley Disruption
25th November 2018
It is only now, a decade after the financial crisis, that the American public seems to appreciate that what we thought was disruption worked more like extraction—of our data, our attention, our time, our creativity, our content, our DNA, our homes, our cities, our relationships. The tech visionaries’ predictions did not usher us into thefuture, but rather a future where they are kings.
They promised the open web, we got walled gardens. They promised individual liberty, then broke democracy—and now they’ve appointed themselves the right men to fix it.
Easily seen here is the proglodyte fondness for change-for-the-sake-of-change-because-the-result-is-inevitably-progress. Facebook is the poster child for this process, with Google rapidly degenerating into a cheap copy.
I am astonished that this could get published in a Voice of the Crust like Wired.