Silicon Valley doesn’t care what normal people want. The tech industry in its current configuration exists to consolidate political and economic power in the hands of a small, select group of billionaires.
This is literally just a few posts up on /r/longreads: https://newrepublic.com/article/208876/tech-world-evil-musk-bezos-thiel
Yeah, some business folks are pretty clear that all the wealth that can be extracted from the bottom 80% basically has been, and they're now interested in new ways to sell things to millionaires. 🤷♂️
I think there's a fundamental misconception here. Silicon Valley hasn't forgotten - it never cared in the first place. The entire point of the tech industry was to build demand for things they made for which there hadn't previously been demand, and to create markets for themselves. Look no further than the iPhone for example, or to Apple's VR thing, or to the entire concept of social media. It's always been about creating demand. The only difference now is that they're failing to create that demand on a massive and highly visible scale.
SV throws things at us and we vote with $. AI is looking to be sticky and would be another subscription we run. In my work it is getting to a point where instead of my view vs yours, we discuss my LLMs view over yours!
_SpaceLord_ | a day ago
Silicon Valley doesn’t care what normal people want. The tech industry in its current configuration exists to consolidate political and economic power in the hands of a small, select group of billionaires.
This is literally just a few posts up on /r/longreads: https://newrepublic.com/article/208876/tech-world-evil-musk-bezos-thiel
Fearless-Feature-830 | a day ago
They didn’t forget lol
MrDelirious | a day ago
Yeah, some business folks are pretty clear that all the wealth that can be extracted from the bottom 80% basically has been, and they're now interested in new ways to sell things to millionaires. 🤷♂️
Quouar | a day ago
I think there's a fundamental misconception here. Silicon Valley hasn't forgotten - it never cared in the first place. The entire point of the tech industry was to build demand for things they made for which there hadn't previously been demand, and to create markets for themselves. Look no further than the iPhone for example, or to Apple's VR thing, or to the entire concept of social media. It's always been about creating demand. The only difference now is that they're failing to create that demand on a massive and highly visible scale.
NakedInNH | a day ago
So much of it feels like I’m being told it will make life easier. How it will actually achieve that still isn’t specified.
anniewherever | a day ago
tbf, SV always told us what we “want” and we either embraced or rejected it
omcstreet | a day ago
SV throws things at us and we vote with $. AI is looking to be sticky and would be another subscription we run. In my work it is getting to a point where instead of my view vs yours, we discuss my LLMs view over yours!
InvisibleEar | a day ago
Society is going to fall apart because people outsource everything to a shitty robot
omcstreet | 16 hours ago
Says the society every single time when tech changes
Sheeeeeeeeeeepy | a day ago
lol
brezhnervouz | 10 hours ago
As if they ever cared lol