Chapter 9: Let’s Get Skeptical

There are plenty of great hype men in Silicon Valley, but that hype loses its power if people start laughing at it. I suspect that Silicon Valley hype is effective in part because people want to believe that the world is better than this – that techno-solutionist bullshit couldn’t possibly be perpetuated at such scale in such a cynical way, so there must be some germ of promise in it. Accepting…