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The institutional shift will weaken the credibility of the technocracy heading into the 2028 election.

George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond

In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social... See more

archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything

There are areas in our economy, such as housing, where the rise of technology calls for more, not less state intervention. Conversely, there are other areas, such as urban transportation, where new technology-driven models end up correcting imperfections that long rigged the functioning of the market[408]; with those imperfections now gone, state

Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age

One Silicon Valley figure suggested, “It could be as simple as 10 Republican senators discovering they actually have backbones.”

Or 10 big-time CEOs, I might add. They can unbend their knees and perhaps revive some of the Valley’s soul. Or at least stop ripping it apart. And while they’re at it, stop making it so easy for the government to usher in... See more

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

To worship at the altar of mega-scale and to convince yourself that you should be the one making world-historic decisions on behalf of a global citizenry that did not elect you and may not share your values or lack thereof, you have to dispense with numerous inconveniences—humility and nuance among them. Many titans of Silicon Valley have made

Just as feudalism blocked production that only capitalism could unleash, so did capitalism constrain an abundance that a new paradigm might unleash. Core to this analysis of the economy was an idea that has come to be called the “fettering of production.”24 Marx observed that many companies’ obsession with profit kept the entire economy from

Ezra Klein • Abundance

In the second Trump Administration, a class of Silicon Valley leaders was insinuating itself into politics in a way that recalled one of Mimura’s primary subjects of study: the élite bureaucrats who seized political power and drove Japan into the Second World War. “These are experts with a technological mind-set and background, often engineers, who... See more

Kyle Chayka • Techno-Fascism Comes to America

How the Department of Defense Bankrolled Silicon Valley

Stephen Mihm systemx.stanford.edu

The narrative of Free America shaped the parameters of acceptable thinking for Smart America. Free trade, deregulation, economic concentration, and balanced budgets became the policy of the Democratic Party. Culturally it was cosmopolitan, embracing multiculturalism at home and welcoming an increasingly globalized world. Its donor class on Wall

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George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's discord, the coming crisis of the 2020s, and the triumph beyond

archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything

Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age

I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong

Ezra Klein • Abundance

Kyle Chayka • Techno-Fascism Comes to America

How the Department of Defense Bankrolled Silicon Valley

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal