Vanity Fairのインスタグラム(vanityfair) - 8月27日 03時34分

Tech billionaires Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreessen have long been regarded as technologically progressive heroes—but they are actually “part of a broader antidemocratic, authoritarian turn within the tech world.”

Described by writer Johnathan Taplin as Technocrats, these four billionaires appear to be more interested in replacing our current reality with something far more opaque, concentrated, and unaccountable—which, if it comes to pass, they will control. Between the Metaverse, crypto, interplanetary colonization, and transhumanism, not to mention AI, Taplin warns that these four men stand to pose an existential risk to the world in political, economic, and, perhaps most fundamentally, moral terms.

“Until we stop worshiping at the temple of Saints Peter or Elon or Zuck or Marc,” writes Taplin, “we will be trapped in the future they want.”

In a powerful excerpt from his new book, ‘The End of Reality,’ Taplin details about the curses of AI and transhumanism—and the power of these four techno-oligarchs.

Illustration by Khoa Tran; @gettyimages

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