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25. The Ideology of Silicon Valley vs the Idea of Democracy – with Adrian Daub

Is This Democracy

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Adrian Del is a literary scholar and cultural critic at Stanford University. His new book, What Tech Called Thinking, looks at the intellectual bedrock of Silicon Valley. We talk about why tech giants like Peter Deal and Elon Musk are so fixated on certain philosophers. And we discuss how it helps us understand what is driving people like Deal and Musk.

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