Right now, we’re either witnessing a golden age of expertise or a crisis of expertise, depending on who you ask. It’s undeniable that technology has democratized access to high-quality information, data, and tools for research, creation, and distribution.

Consider what Kuhn famously argued: that a paradigm shift happens when we encounter anomalies that can’t be explained by the paradigm responsible for progress thereto. So here’s our anomaly: that industrial-age wealth hasn’t neatly powered lives lived meaningfully well; that near-term profit, gross product, and hyperconsumption haven’t produced a f

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what do I say? That the internet is to the USA what the Americas once were to the UK—a frontier territory, where all the action is. That just as the Western frontier once gave rise to an American pioneer class, the internet frontier has given rise to a global technology class. That this class is not defined by inherited wealth (many are born poor i

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