I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Of course, the Silicon Valley was never all the flowers and psydedellic. “It can lick itself with the roots of counter -culture, money and energy are always in the mainstream,” said Kapoor. And of course, the politics of the valley always adjusts a strong liberal strain.

However, even the capitalists of the initiative seemed to be concerned about the feeling of revolution – such as meteorologists go to the IPO Road show from bombs. When the Internet came like a thunderbolt, the ideological soundtrack became the division of the ear. In 1996, my friend John Perry Berlo argued that the Internet had crossed the Earthbound law and boundaries in 1996. “Your legal ideas about your property, expression, identity, movement and context do not apply to us,” he wrote.

Oh my god is good, have we posted our hopes on the Internet? When I first met them, Larry Page and Sergey Brin were the idealist of the wide eye. Jeff Bezos came like a friend, interested in mentioning that Amazon employees were included themselves, setting up their computer at the reconstruction wooden doors instead of the expensive desk. After my first conversation with Zuckerberg, he went home in a small apartment without any furniture.

And then the giants on the Internet smaller their companies to impose their own expression, identity and context’s own ideas. Those who once received the humble leaders of the unprecedented prizes. Now they can’t spread their treasure enough – many -houses, yachts, planes.

On the day of July, I met Russell Hankk on a pleasant day, who is running a Think tank called Joint Venture Silicon Valley in his Palo Alto home living room. He caught it during the 2000 Tech Crash; Now you will not be able to buy a jerk in the paly without the wealth of the generation. Page and Zuckerberg, dissatisfied with a single homestade, scoop around the property, once the Idilic roads convert to supervailine compounds.

“People who are doing great well, they are really having a great time.” For everyone in the Silicon Valley, the assets are more punished, even more irrational. When Apple had IPO in the 5th, Steve Jobs’ net value was about $ 100 million. Now Zuckerberg is offering AI researchers, which is much higher for one year labor. Hancock brings Guinea Coor, which is a measure of popular discrimination in the World Bank crowd. Since the 90s, “We went to Guinea from 30 to 83,” he said. “These are the conditions of the French Revolution.”

Another big change was revealed. For a long time, former Bill Clinton worker Chris Lehan, who worked for companies such as AirBNB and OpenAI, note the software “about the fourth dimension.” Technology leaders could stay in the West and avoid politics. However, software products then began to break the entire sectors of the business. “These products were physically expressing themselves in terms of taxis, short -term rent and food supply,” Lehan said, “To shake the existing political system, faith, laws.” Sometimes people die from this attack. Old, favorite business off. Local politicians went crazy. Playing the system, Silicon Valley jumps into the wetlands. As a technician from the present administration has told me, “The valley now realizes that it cannot ignore politics, because politics will not ignore you.”