I see the same problems as the author; but in very different terms. The lack of connection to surroundings -- the lack of meaningful public goods in SF, for exa

I see the same problems as the author; but in very different terms. The lack of connection to surroundings -- the lack of meaningful public goods in SF, for example -- contributes to the detachment and other worldly obsessions of tech leaders. Thus the pre-occupation with living forever and colonizing space: the circle of life on earth seems narrow for those who reject its depth. However, this kind of escapism is not unique to tech in California. California has been a parade of cults, hedonists and lunatics for a hundred and fifty years or more. Tech entrepreneurs are merely lunatics whose pre-occupations were commercializable, legal and transformative for a very large swath of the economy. What is indicted by tech is not engineering or capitalism, but an escapist and visionary way of life.