Tech

The Slaughter of the Tech Unicorns

BORING NEW WORLD

Big tech grows up, gets treated with overdue suspicion, and aims to get boring.

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After nearly two triumphant decades marked by an unprecedented accumulation of both wealth and power, our tech oligarchy seems to be running out of luck.

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