"Silicon Valley seems increasingly gripped by memes of existential dread. Having already materialized talking computers and self-driving cars of science fiction—and the digital surveillance architecture Orwell warned about in 1984—they have set their sights on even scarier new frontiers."
https://www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-valley-apocalypse-capitalism/
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“This religious-themed fervor is important because it reveals a deeper truth about the tech industry and the dark future it seems destined to manifest. Thiel is not the only tech figure preaching fantasies of doom.
Silicon Valley seems increasingly gripped by memes of existential dread. Having already materialized talking computers and self-driving cars of science fiction—and the digital surveillance architecture Orwell warned about in 1984—they have set their sights on even scarier new frontiers.
Artificial intelligence companies hype the coming of a “godlike” force capable of wiping out most jobs and, perhaps, all of humanity. Crypto companies peddle fantasies of digital salvation, shilling tokenized scams supposedly designed to survive the impending collapse of the U.S. dollar and the liberal democratic order. Elon Musk, declaring Earth obsolete, hallucinates a new promised land on the dead waste of Mars. New crops of startups promote delusional notions of eternal life while others launch the next generation of killer robot drones.”