“In interview after interview, I asked them what, if anything, might force the industry to confront its dim longer-term prospects. Their answers were vague. The midterm election? An economic collapse? One Silicon Valley figure suggested, “It could be as simple as 10 Republican senators discovering they actually have backbones.”
Or 10 big-time CEOs, I might add.”
Also from https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-politics-shift/
Joanna Bryson, blathering
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