The Fall of Travis Kalanick
"Silicon Valley innovation now is directly aimed at oppressing the underclass, and everybody knows it and can see it. They hate Uber. People hate Uber. It means the death of the era of good feelings that came with this constant Moore's Law style innovation.<p>And that was an unforced error, by Silicon Valley. It was in their DNA. They didn't <i>have</i> to give Travis Kalanick, a guy they despised and never trusted, for good reason—They didn't <i>have</i> to give him all that venture capital.<p>But they saw him as an expendable probe, so they cynically gave him money, to see how much law-breaking he could get away with in the name of their disruption activities.<p>That was hubris—and nemesis is well on the way."<p>- NEXT17 | Bruce Sterling | Live from 2027