Silicon Valley is so hilariously incestuous
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I think if you're going to talk about the social effects of technology historically, it's pretty relevant...
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but he seems to draw on New Institutionalism a lot (which I wrote my PhD on) and they don't really incorporate that topic well
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but only to dismiss them as not 'getting' that tech is Disruptive etc. I find that sort of thing a bit tiresome
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hehehe ... I got onto new insti after season 1, working through powell/dimaggio volume now
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but institutionalism imo is kinda agnostic to views on luddites, role of a left etc. is imo. It'll be part of season 2.
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SV has what you might call liberal-tarianism... closest to classic left would be Tim O'Reilly. LW is not actually that big
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well that's what I mean - a lot of these worldviews extrapolate a lot on the basis of Silicon Valley experience...
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yes, it's a consequence of outsize impact... industries like steel and oil had similar periods 1890s or so
theory I am working is that new "literary industrial complex" emerges to generalize experiences of young supernova sector
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Traditional institutional theories are actually far more tied to narrow range of sectoral experiences than people realize
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