>The thing that bothers me most: All of those fancy technologies that PG emphasizes, those that some commentors here are happy to trade 45 years of real wage gr

>The thing that bothers me most: All of those fancy technologies that PG emphasizes, those that some commentors here are happy to trade 45 years of real wage growth for, had their direct roots in that brief period of weird equality. What happens next? What happens after AirBnB puts all the hotels out of business and we're all staying in each other's spare bedrooms on trips? What happens after Uber has killed off all the taxi companies in the world and replaced them with spare-time drivers? Do things still keep getting better and better? Sure, my nifty new Galaxy Note is better than my old land-line, but exactly how much better is an iPhone6 compared to a 5? The Google founders attempt to throw us out of cyberpunk capitalism by setting off a technological singularity. I'm not joking. Look at their hobbies: artificial intelligence, life extension, robotics. It's really obvious: they are trying to play at being Vernor Vinge characters. Which actually carries an important point: a lot of the people who do the real work of pushing the high-tech business forward don't particularly care for capitalism itself. They'd just as soon push for far more technological solutionism and alter socioeconomic relations to suit.