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Silicon Valley Needs to Lose the Arrogance or Risk Destruction

  • By Bill Wasik |

Silicon Valley is always selling the next category, the new frontier, the thing you’ll need tomorrow but can’t even imagine wanting today. Unlike any other industry, tech relies on not merely trust but faith that a leap into the unknown will be rewarded. That’s why the recent arrogance of Silicon Valley honchos has not just been poisonous — but deluded.

In This Silicon Valley Tech Culture and Class War, We’re Fighting About the Wrong Things

  • By Susie Cagle |

The fake (Alper’s fake Google employee street theater rant) felt real and the real (Gopman’s rant about the homeless) felt fake because all logic has been lost in the midst of a cultural upheaval between those in tech and those outside of it. The problem, though, is that those sides don’t necessarily correlate to ‘tech’ vs. ‘non-tech’. But there’s no doubt this will be a fight. It’s just in everyone’s best interest that it’s the right one.

Silicon Valley Isn’t a Meritocracy. And It’s Dangerous to Hero-Worship Entrepreneurs

  • By contextly |

Meritocracy and entrepreneurialism reinforce a closed system of privilege. It also reveals the threadbare nature of digital exceptionalism, which incorporates social consciousness and intellectual discussion and positions tech as a solution to an array of difficult problems.

Software Is Reorganizing the World

  • By Balaji Srinivasan |

When cloud formations take physical shape, neither their scale nor duration has an upper bound: We may begin to see cloud towns, then cloud cities, and ultimately cloud countries. At first this sounds rather implausible. Perhaps the internet will spur a wave of internal migrations as online communities begin gathering in person — but could this process really lead to a new city, or country?

Mapping Silicon Valley’s Gentrification Problem Through Corporate Shuttle Routes

  • By Eric Rodenbeck |

Take the public transportation provided by corporate shuttle buses from the likes of Apple, Google, Facebook, and others. For better or worse, we’re looking at a situation where private networks start to supplant public infrastructure.