(Re)creating a techno-nationalist elite
The technologists who would rule The much-heralded AI revolution is but the latest in a series of technological revolutions originating from Silicon Valley: the integrated circuit and the personal computer, the Internet and the World Wide Web, smartphones and streaming video, search engines, online commerce, and social networks. These revolutions have made many of their creators immensely wealthy and (as has often been the case with the newly wealthy) eager to flex their muscles and acquire social and political power to match their economic power. ...