Alex Karp’s Technopolitik

As America undergoes a political realignment, Silicon Valley is experiencing its own shake-up. It’s not just the Big Tech CEOs tactfully aligning themselves with President Trump in a way that was unthinkable his first time around. The tech industry’s very raison d’être is under reconsideration, as technologists, policymakers, and the public rethink the shift in recent decades from the real economy of atoms to the virtual world of bits. There’s a discontent among founders, who have remembered that their predecessors built the spaceship and computer, while they’ve settled for fixing bugs in Candy Crush. Can’t we do something bigger and better?