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
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theory I am working is that new "literary industrial complex" emerges to generalize experiences of young supernova sector
Traditional institutional theories are actually far more tied to narrow range of sectoral experiences than people realize
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current lit-ind complex (HBS, sociology depts, insti economics) outgrowth of very few experiences
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