Move Fast and Destroy Democracy

Julian Zelizer : Some tech leaders have cozied up to Trump in order to dominate this world as we enter the next Cambrian explosion in technology, with the development of advanced AI .

Zelizer says tech moguls want to reign like kings not just over tech, but over everything everywhere, and all at once.

Elon Musk's net worth has nearly doubled after Trump ’s victory, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Musk 's behavior is emblematic of tech's most heinous figures, who now feel emboldened to enter the analog world with the same lack of care and arrogance with which they built their sloppy platforms.

With trillions of dollars there for the taking, investments are being made by the same small coterie of companies that now controls the entire federal government.

Stephen Swisher : Media, science, education, institutions are being slowly destroyed by technology.

He says tech entrepreneurs like Musk and others are buying up everything from global media to a president of the U.S. He says they are everywhere we look, running everything, a fate that Paul Virilio predicted in 1994 .