https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/06/silicon-valley-fairy-dust/
"Silicon Valley companies began life with the Fairy dust of 1960s dreams
sprinkled on them. The revolution that 1960s activists dreamed of had failed,
but the personal computer movement carried that dream onto the early personal
computer industry. Hobbyist fairs, a communitarian language, and the very place
of their birth encouraged this fantasy. Nevertheless, it soon became clear
that, like all companies, what these companies wanted most of all, was to make
money. Not to foster democracy, not to foster community and new thinking, but
to make money.
Making money with digital tools in neoliberal capitalism led to four practices
that constituted a baseline ideology-in-practice."
Via Wayne Radinsky, who wrote "Sherry Turkle wrote a scathing critique of the
culture of Silicon Valley."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
