Sharon Weinberger’s Valley Of Death should force Americans to confront a disturbing transformation: the growing power of Big Tech over War, Weapons, Intelligence, and national When Silicon Valley Becomes The New Military-Industrial Complexsecurity.
Her reporting traces how Government funding helped build Silicon Valley and how the relationship has evolved. Today, companies such as SpaceX, Palantir, and Anduril are developing Artificial Intelligence, Drones, and other advanced military technologies while gaining an increasingly influential role in national defense.
Even the history of Steve Jobs raises uncomfortable questions. Weinberger reports that a CIA contract for NeXT computers helped keep Jobs’s struggling company alive after his departure from Apple. The NeXT operating system later became the foundation of modern Apple software.
Technology can transform human life for the better. But when enormous private wealth, Artificial Intelligence, Weapons, and secret Government contracts converge, Democracy demands transparency and accountability.
The question is no longer simply what Technology can do. It is who controls it, who profits from it, and who decides when it is used to make War.
Americans deserve answers before the Valley of Innovation becomes a Valley of Death.
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