I thought I knew the silicone valley. I was wrong

Of course, the silicon valley was not all flowers and anesthetic. “Although he might fill himself with the roots of anti -culture, earning money and accumulation has always been in the main current,” says Kapoor. Of course, the valley policy always absorbs a strong liberation strain.

But even the owners of the capitalists in the adventure seemed to feel the revolution – as if the army had turned from the bombs to the dispute shows. When the Internet like Thunderclap has arrived, ideological graphic music has become an ear division. In his book “Announcement of Electronic Space Independence in 1996”, my friend John Perry Barlo argued that the Internet has exceeded the laws and borders heading to Earth. “Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement and context do not apply to us,” he wrote.

Oh my God, have we published our hopes on the Internet? When I first met them, Larry Big and Sergey Brene were perfect eyes. Jeff Bezos came like a friend, keen to indicate that Amazon employees, including the same, created their computers on the redisproped doors instead of the price offices. After my first conversation with Zuckerberg, he went home to a small apartment without furniture.

Then the Internet giants have formed their companies to impose their concepts of expression, identity and context. These modest leaders one day are unimaginable bonuses. Now they can not boast of their wealth enough – Multiple homes, yachts, aircraft.

On a wonderful day in July, I met Russell Hancock, who runs a research tank called the joint silicone valley, in the living room in his home Pallo Alto. He delivered it during the 2000 technology crash; Now you cannot buy a hut in Bali without wealth near generations. Page and Zuckerberg, who are not satisfied with one house, attracted nearby properties, and once turned into the ideal streets into supercar vehicles.

“People who are doing a good job, they spend a great time,” says Hancock. For everyone in Silicon Valley, the wealth gap gets more punishment and more absurd. When Apple got the public subscription in 1980, the net value of Steve Jobs topped nearly $ 100 million. Zuckerberg now is said to have provided to artificial intelligence researchers that a lot of functioning is for one general work. Hancock offers a genetic laboratory, a measure of inequality that is popular between the World Bank crowd. Since the 1990s, “We have gone from 30 to Jenny to 83,” he says. “These are the conditions of the French Revolution.”

Another big change was revealed. For the longest time, Chris Liehan, a former Bill Clinton employee working for companies such as Airbnb and Openai, observed the software “almost the fourth dimension”. Technology leaders can afford to stay abroad and avoid politics. But then software products began to break the entire work sectors. “These products were physically manifested in taxis, short -term rental, and food delivery,” says Liehan, says Liehan, “The existing political systems, beliefs and laws collide with.” Sometimes people died from this incursion. The beloved old companies were closed. Local politicians angered. For the system of the system, the silicone valley jumped to the swamp. As one of the technicians in the current administration tells me, “The valley now realizes that he cannot ignore politics, because politics will not ignore you.”