@peterthiel at his most intellectual: remarkable interview in NZZ (in German), spanning Silicon Valley's increasing infertility, economic stagnation, the future of Western societies, Marxist analysis, stoicism, identity politics, the role of politicshttps://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/peter-thiel-donald-trump-handelt-fuer-mich-zu-wenig-disruptiv-ld.1471818 …
...vision of the internet as an open place with privacy is over, users are now transparent and interaction is regulated, but state censorship would be even worse than present corporate censorship, entrepreneurship requires aiming at becoming a monopoly -> fear of totalitarianism
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... people thought the internet would lead everybody to have similar ideas, this hope is over: new media allows dissidence. regaining privacy will become an important topic, SV companies don't satisfy their users, regulation will make that not better but worse
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... progress and wealth of SV stop at the bridge to Oakland, new gadgets obscure the fact that innovation rates have dropped so far that society is stagnating and present generations are impoverished because there is less real world growth (requires innovation) to distribute
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