Maybe this is also a clue as to why the innovations of the past thirty years–a time of spiraling inequality–haven’t quite lived up to our expectations. “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters,” mocks Peter Thiel, Silicon Valley’s self-described resident intellectual.19 If the post-war era gave us fabulous inventions like the washing machine, the refrigerator, the space shuttle, and the pill, lately it’s been slightly improved iterations of the same phone we bought a couple years ago.
Progress without vision because of market-determined valuation of what defines "progress"
