Tag: mark zuckerberg
-
Welcome to the Age of the Broligarchs | Vince Bzdek
One of the most remarkable things about the inauguration Monday was the prominence of place given to tech titans during the ceremonies. Magnates worth more than $1 trillion were seated right behind the president and a row ahead of Donald Trump’s Cabinet as Trump was sworn in. Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, Meta CEO…
-
Provocative new reads about predictions and probabilities | Tom Cronin
“The Singularity is Nearer When We Merge with AI,” by Ray Kurzweil (Viking) “On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything,” by Nate Silver (Penguin) What happens when you read back-to-back books by a quirky celebrity computer scientist and a quirky celebrity statistician/gambler? You’re tempted to consider bigger and riskier bets, and you ask difficult questions about what…
-
Americans are good at democratizing things. Space is next. | Vince Bzdek
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Sixty years and two months after Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and their guests became the first private passengers to reach space aboard private rocket ships, and Bezos’s rocket just happened to be dubbed the New Shepard.…
-
Americans are good at democratizing things. Space is next. | Vince Bzdek
Sixty years and two months after Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space, Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and their guests became the first private passengers to reach space aboard private rocket ships, and Bezos’s rocket just happened to be dubbed the New Shepard. The touchdowns of Bezos’s rocket last week and Shepard’s six…
-
A Big Tech reckoning is coming, and Coloradans may lead the way | Vince Bzdek
Colorado U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, had dinner about a year ago with the man who probably has more power over our public debate than any other person right now, Mark Zuckerberg. The CEO of Facebook now owns four of the biggest social media companies in the world. “It would be difficult to find…