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Why Tech Billionaires Want to Shape Our Future w/ Rose Eveleth

Tech Won't Save Us

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The Future of Venture Capitalism

I feel like we're in a moment where there is a reckoning on those kind of big promises that these people made the futures that they had us believing in for a long time. There's also a recognition that a lot of those futures that they were trying to sell us really did serve to distract us from real tangible problems that exist in society. We do actually have ways that we can address these problems today and we don't need to wait for some technology to arrive in order to do it. I worry a little bit that any tiny thing can be this like great redemptive arc for technologists and the sort of like powers that be right now because all you have to do is give me

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