Peter Thiel: “Diversity Myth” 30 Years Later [video]

It does seem like a grand conspiracy theory that science has been deliberately muted. But I am also of that age where I also feel that we were on a trajectory in technology that just plateaued for opaque political reasons.

Computing feels like it was thrown back 20 years by Microsoft.

He blames "woke" diversity, but a simpler explanation is that progress was put on hold so that money could be made in a more stable and less disruptive environment.