Argentina

Recently, I started reading the Elon Musk biography. The books starts with a critique of the Silicon Valley that I hadn’t fully appreciated. Who are the successful technology companies of the last 15 years? Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, SnapChat. At the end of the 20 th century, it seemed as if technology was going to unlock human potential by giving the world access to vast stores of information. Instead, it has turned us into narcissists that obsess over the number of likes we have, take selfies, and never dare to touch food that we haven’t first photographed. To be fair, perhaps these companies were merely unlocking an innate narcissism that humans have always had. Nevertheless, the promise of a sci-fi future gave way to selfie sticks and the world’s top computer programming graduates flocked to the Silicon Valley to write code for apps that maximize clicks rather than advance the frontiers of technology. Even companies that I hold in high esteem like Google at the end...