The once highly regarded and pricey hub for tech dreamers and fledgling startups has devolved from a breeding ground for ingenuity and innovation — a place of hope — to something closer to an American nightmare.
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Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
7 Apr. 2026
And who could blame these romantic dreamers for wanting to cast aside the surly bonds of Earth to visit the pale beauty of our cratered satellite?
The playwright understood something about the economic reasoning of such an innovation, however, for if the futurists and techno-utopians once imagined that machines would do all of our dreary work to free us to be artists, writers, and musicians, the opposite is now the case.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
Techno-utopians point out that, historically, advancements have led to the explosion of huge new business sectors and jobs.
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