Global power without responsibility?
The last time I was in San Francisco, the city was six months away from the devastating earthquake of 1989. No one saw it coming and yet everyone expected it, as if the ‘big one’ was something to be both anticipated but never experienced. Not that 1989 was the big one in the end, but it was big enough to take dozens of lives and leave the city deeply shaken, the rebuilding effort lasting for decades. Yet in those pre-quake days, the chatter was all about possibility: the feeling that something could happen. Silicon Valley today has that same anticipatory vibe.
