The leading intellect on digital culture believes the recent tech reckoning is corrective justice for Silicon Valley barons
Sun 28 May 2023 11.00 BST
- The top US health official warned about the risks of social media to young people; tech billionaire Elon Musk further trashed his reputation with the disastrous Twitter launch of a presidential campaign; and senior executives at OpenAI, makers of ChatGPT, called for the urgent regulation of “super intelligence”.
- But to Doug Rushkoff – a leading digital age theorist, early cyberpunk and professor at City University of New York – the triple whammy of rough events represented some timely corrective justice for the tech barons of Silicon Valley. And more may be to come as new developments in tech come ever thicker and faster.
The Guardian: “They’re afraid their AIs will come for them”: Doug Rushkoff on why tech billionaires are in escape mode (28/5/2023)