The internet has a special fondness for innovative buzzwords, especially when they’re tied to perceived cultural shifts or highlighting emerging trends. The columnist Adrian Wooldridge coined a phrase in 2013 that ultimately did just that. As he penned for The Economist, he sounded the alarm about the impending “techlash”, a backlash against Silicon Valley’s elite fueled by the growing awareness among the general public that these “digital sovereigns” were not the altruistic visionaries they professed to be, but rather self-serving titans of industry.
While Wooldridge’s exact timeline for the techlash remained unclear, it was evident that a significant pivot in public perception had already taken place, with concerns about Huge Tech and its leaders remaining prevalent – and potentially ongoing.
Two newly published books serve as wondrous reminders of what initially inspired us.
Collectively, these works chronicle the rise of a business increasingly leveraging its unprecedented wealth and influence to erode democracy, thereby defining what we can do to reclaim some of that energy. .
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