Tech Titans and the Dystopian dream
My podcast with Jonathan Taplin
My interview with Jonathan Taplin about his phenomenal new book The End of Reality is absolutely riveting story of how Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Marc Andreesen, and Marc Zuckerberg are reshaping the nation in their own weird, dark, got-mine tech-bro dystopia.
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What, you don't want to walk around with clunky plastic goggles on all the time? 😺
This Charlotte Brontë nugget feels like an appropriate comment here, the “I” being “we”, the citizens of 🇺🇸 :
“I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trode the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten centre.”
- Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre”