A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry
A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry
theconversation.com A new Silicon Valley manifesto reveals the bleak, dangerous philosophy driving the tech industry
Venture capitalist billionaire Marc Andreessen dreams of ‘becoming technological supermen’ in a ‘techno-optimist’ manifesto built on a dark colonial vision.
We don’t have to look too deeply into history to find parallels to this kind of worldview. Simply put, it is the worldview of colonialism: it sees both nature and other people as domains to be conquered and exploited for “growth”.
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It’s a secular apocalypse cult. There’s a good episode of Team Human about it. https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/257-emile-p-torres
Thank you for sharing this. new thinking for me to explore.
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