>I can't think of anything worse than a government led by nerds. LMAO. Truer words have never been written. And yet, I don't think we have a choice in the matt

>I can't think of anything worse than a government led by nerds. LMAO. Truer words have never been written. And yet, I don't think we have a choice in the matter. We're in the middle of a paradigm shift, akin to the managerial revolution. In the managerial revolution, power passed from the people who own companies and businesses, small and large, to the people who managed them. The control of capital (in the technical sense) mattered more than the ownership of it. We're seeing something analogous where the people who manage the complexity of these large managerial institutions have gained more power than the people who officially manage them. The leverage technology provides to the users is only outmatched by the leverage it provides to its implementers. Technological concerns have more power in America than any concern, and in every organization, the implementers and maintainers of technology are more business critical than any individual manager. This is power in real terms. A side effecting consequence of this is the glamorization of the "coder" (mind you, not the hacker, though it is the hacker who has gained in actual wealth, power, and status). You never would have seen glamour shots of coders on instagram 20 years ago (and not just because it didn't exist!). Glamorization is what happens when you gain power and money in real terms, as an individual or as a class. I don't think we have a choice in the matter. The signs of the sea change are all around us. The question is what will the leveragers of technology into the wheels of power have for their values, and what will the consequences of their ascendancy be? Thiel is just the first.