Headed? Thanks to Zuck and Elon, we are already there.

"Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" by Malcolm Harris is a really, really fantastic book that shows how far back this line of thought goes in the region.

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/malcolm-harris/palo...

Hmmm, in this framing, would the the free-software / open-source hacker folks would be the socialists/communists that ally against the status-quo, getting purged later when the fascists get enough power?

Another lens to try seeing the situation through is techno-feudalism, although IMO that implies semi-autonomous regions with authority that the top can't directly take or manage. (So it would have to be about people, rather than admin privileges in software.)

>A major tech CEO lambasts a Black civil rights leader’s calls for diversifying the tech workforce

Talent is the most important factor. It’s not Silicon Valley’s fault women and people of color are less involved in tech.

This article is loose and downright nutty. Except those convenient comparisons to Hitler, Reddit will eat that up.