Tim Wallace

“can tell you how we got that way, because of what I know about a critical element: the wholesale capture of our current information systems by tech companies, and their willful carelessness and sometimes filthy-thumb-on-scale malevolence (we’ll get to Elon in a minute) in managing it. When combined with enormous financial self-interest—a point I make at the start of this book, when describing how Silicon Valley potentates marched up to Trump Tower in late 2016 like sheeple to pay homage to the president-elect—it is basically a familiar trope: Greed (of the few) over need (of the many). And that has resulted in damage and the warping and siloing of us, courtesy of many of the people—though not all—you have just read about in this book. These characters don’t want to reign over only tech like kings, but also over everything everywhere and all at once throughout our society. To update the old Facebook maxim of “move fast and break things”: “Move fast and crush everyone in the way of what our small, elite, and extraordinarily wealthy group thinks the world should be like.”
― Kara Swisher, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story