Silicon Valley claims to know the future. So why'd it get the midterms so wrong? : hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se

Silicon Valley claims to know the future. So why'd it get the midterms so wrong? (www.technologyreview.com)

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[–] SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app 13 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

Silicon Valley doesn't know the future, it's trying to control the future.

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[–] LilB0kChoy@reddthat.com 4 points 11 hours ago

Bingo! They don’t know it, they try to shape it through their control of technology, and social media.

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 6 points 13 hours ago

This isn't hard to understand. They were...and probably still are...expecting Trump to stay in power, indefinitely. It's no secret that all these tech-bros are mask-off fascists, and see Trump as their gateway to absolute control. The midterm results are not so much an obstacle to that, but rather just a matter of temporarily unfortunate optics.