All the "we're going to change the world" startups? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/changing-world-silicon-valley-style-reid-hoffman https://www.linkedin.com/pu

All the "we're going to change the world" startups? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/changing-world-silicon-valley-style-reid-hoffman https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/changing-world-silicon-valley... Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn founder): In Silicon Valley few entrepreneurs and technologists dream of changing the zip code, or even the state. Here, the goal is to change the world" http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/27/change-the-world http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/05/27/change-the-worl... The phrase “change the world” is tossed around Silicon Valley conversations and business plans as freely as talk of “early-stage investing” and “beta tests.” ad for the University of San Francisco that I spotted on a public bus shelter south of Market Street: “Become wildly successful without becoming a jerk no one likes. Change the world from here.” https://medium.com/the-mission/silicon-valley-has-a-problem-problem-b34437a57e99#.4q24ad6cu https://medium.com/the-mission/silicon-valley-has-a-problem-... https://books.google.com.uy/books?id=eK52augjU98C&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=change+the+world+silicon+valley&source=bl&ots=1EFW_pmLB-&sig=16KlLCz2Rytnvaw6BYVRY97nF08&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjZ9dOZm6bOAhUK02MKHZbGDz04ChDoAQggMAE#v=onepage&q=change%20the%20world%20silicon%20valley&f=false https://books.google.com.uy/books?id=eK52augjU98C&pg=PA97&lp... ... and many, many more. It paint Silicon Valley as an utopian, idealistic band of technocrats wanting to change the world (which can be interpreted as building a just society, might be a stretch). I'm in Uruguay (South America), and that's very definitely the perception I have (I haven't been to the U.S.)