“Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future.”
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Silicon Valley Circuits
“Route 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future.”
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Whither the Nerd-Bully?
“Bill Gates was the monopolistic father figure who Silicon Valley’s young founders rebelled against—and, in so rebelling, became.”
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Meet the Sad Wives of AI
“Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry.”
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The Chinese Whiz Kids of Silicon Valley
“Chinese-born tech workers have fueled Silicon Valley for decades. In the AI era, they’re superstars.”
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Creating Baby Geniuses to Thwart the AI Threat? (Yes, Really.)
“The new wave of Silicon Valley–backed gene-editing startups is straight out of ‘Brave New World.'”
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Syria’s Quest to Build Its Own Silicon Valley
“Tech founders in Damascus are rebooting a war-torn country.”
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DOGE-Pilled
“Luke Farritor could have been an artist, or a builder, or someone dedicated to seeing a great historical mystery through. Instead he wound up at the Department of Government Efficiency, slashing, dismantling, undoing.”
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The Women Who Made America’s Microchips and the Children Who Paid for It
“America’s first generation of Silicon Valley factory workers endured unsafe manufacturing conditions and never got answers about kids born with birth defects.”