Tag: Silicon Valley

  • Modernity and Despair: What Should We Hope For?

    Modernity and Despair: What Should We Hope For?

    Modernity of our sort produces a certain kind of despair and helplessness because the primary sources of hope are technological development and the institutional efforts of technocrats. The best hope of progress is always elsewhere: the Supreme Court, Silicon Valley, the Justice Department. Looking back we see lots of progress but no role for ourselves…