“a return to tyranny and mystification in the form of rule by algorithms, corporations, machines”

TechCrunch · Aug 9, 11:00 AM · Historian Jill Lepore: Silicon Valley misreads science fiction, undermines democracy

“My beef is the ways in which private corporations have increasingly taken on the functions of the state.”

TechCrunch · Aug 9, 11:00 AM · Historian Jill Lepore: Silicon Valley misreads science fiction, undermines democracy

“But what's funny about Musk is, the stuff he likes actually completely defeats and defies all of his political beliefs”

TechCrunch · Aug 9, 11:00 AM · Historian Jill Lepore: Silicon Valley misreads science fiction, undermines democracy

“By the artificial state, I mean a kind of state that is replacing the liberal democratic nation-state in the United States and around the world.”

TechCrunch · Aug 9, 11:00 AM · Historian Jill Lepore: Silicon Valley misreads science fiction, undermines democracy