says Stanford professor of social ethics of science and technology Rob Reich, “an extraordinarily tiny number of billionaires who control the information ecosystem have made allyship with the most consequential and fearsome political power in the world. There’s never been a time in history when those things have been combined.”

it is a technocracy nevertheless. One that is about to take over the US government, in a movement that has worrying parallels and rhymes with McNamara’s Whiz Kids in the 60s. I expect the story to unfold about as well. The visions of a self-congratulating anointed technocracy never work out as expected, regardless of its ideological origins.

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