> "Even if Silicon Valley comes out as arrogant to the outside world, it is quite justified." Uhhhh... Way to prove the point, man. > "Technology is going to

> "Even if Silicon Valley comes out as arrogant to the outside world, it is quite justified." Uhhhh... Way to prove the point, man. > "Technology is going to be more powerful than many laws and regulations" Yes and no. And this is part of Silicon Valley's arrogance: it is so utterly full of itself that it has usurped the entirety of the word "technology". Think about it for a second, step back from your day to day writing code and think about the word "technology". We software people occupy a tiny portion of tech, even though we're so loud and so good at attracting attention to ourselves that it seem to everyone else (and us) that we are technology. Forget nanotech, forget good old mechanical engineering, forget aerospace, forget biotech, forget electric, civil, geological engineering. Apparently those don't exist, and the only technology that matters is code. What a load of shit, and I say that as someone who writes code for a living. We are part of a much, much greater whole. We do interesting things, occasionally they are immensely impactful, 99.9% of the rest of the time it's really not. There's a old Chinese parable: "the frog at the bottom of the well" - about a frog stuck at the bottom of a well, who is immensely self-satisfied with his situation, because the rest of the world is just one boring little blue circle.