This summer I made a trip to Silicon Valley. The first day I had a series of meetings at Stanford University that went from disheartening to transcendent. My early meetings exposed the thickness of the famed “Silicon Valley bubble,” when I realized that powerful and influential people on the campus had little reference for some of the most landmark works in emerging media storytelling and that their industry analysis (which informs some of the most powerful tech firms and investor cohorts in the industry) is faulty and skewed. I left the meeting feeling like there was no hope for working within Silicon Valley to make change and that maybe our only hope was to “Buckminster Fuller” emerging media and build new systems from the ground up.
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