Sublime

Soaring Inequality

fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity

The curmudgeons among us are vaguely uneasy about the attention people pay to their phones, and pine for the days of unhurried concentration, while the digital hipsters equate such nostalgia with Luddism and boredom, and believe that increased connection is the foundation for a utopian

Benedict Evans says, “The more the Internet exposes people to new points of view, the angrier people get that different views exist.”

In 1997, historian David Banks argued in “The Problem of Excess Genius” that, “The most important question we can ask of historians is ‘Why are some periods and places so astonishingly more productive than the rest?’" 

Silicon Valley shifted greed from pure dollars and cents to time itself.