arjun on Nostr: Peter Thiel: I think we live in a society in which all the culture and politics hate ...
Peter Thiel: I think we live in a society in which all the culture and politics hate science and technology in all forms.
The easy way to see this is just by looking at all the science fiction movies. They always show technology that kills people, destroys things, doesn’t work, or is dystopian.
The future is going to be a combination of Terminator, The Matrix, Avatar, and Elysium.
I watched the Gravity movie the other day. You would never want to go into outer space. You’d just want to be back on a muddy tropical island somewhere.
I’m not blaming Hollywood. I think it simply reflects the broader culture.
Silicon Valley, and what it represents, is radically countercultural. It is very much at odds with what people in the Western world actually think about the future or what they want.
So, it’s like a Zeno’s paradox type situation where you have, on the one hand, accelerating technological change (or at least the potential for it), and on the other hand, a culture and political system that is incredibly reactionary and hostile to it.
The easy way to see this is just by looking at all the science fiction movies. They always show technology that kills people, destroys things, doesn’t work, or is dystopian.
The future is going to be a combination of Terminator, The Matrix, Avatar, and Elysium.
I watched the Gravity movie the other day. You would never want to go into outer space. You’d just want to be back on a muddy tropical island somewhere.
I’m not blaming Hollywood. I think it simply reflects the broader culture.
Silicon Valley, and what it represents, is radically countercultural. It is very much at odds with what people in the Western world actually think about the future or what they want.
So, it’s like a Zeno’s paradox type situation where you have, on the one hand, accelerating technological change (or at least the potential for it), and on the other hand, a culture and political system that is incredibly reactionary and hostile to it.