The Billionaires Who Want to Outgrow Democracy
Every time I pull up directions on my phone, I'm using something the government built. GPS started as a Department of Defense project and was run for decades by the Air Force, the same branch I served in. The internet traces back to a Pentagon research program. A lot of the technology that made Silicon Valley rich was paid for by taxpayers long before anyone figured out how to put an app store on top of it. That history matters when the people who got rich on that foundation start talking about tearing down the system that built it. Gil Durán, author of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism…
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