Elon Musk is going to fail. But it's also like when Google and Facebook rebranded, it wasn't like, now we need to call the Facebook social media platform meta, right? We don't need to calls the Google search engine alphabet. It's just we have this holding company where our other things are going to be part of it as well. I think this is a really crucial question because this is one of the biggest drivers as to the type of technology we get.
Paris Marx is joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. to discuss how the venture capital industry works, why the technologies it funds don’t deliver on their marketing promises, and how that’s once again being shown in the hype around AI.
Edward Ongweso Jr. is a freelance journalist, co-host of This Machine Kills, and guest columnist at The Nation. You can follow Ed on Twitter at @bigblackjacobin.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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