How Engineering Replaced Politics

How Engineering Replaced Politics

If an extraterrestrial—or, for that matter, a human being from anywhere else—were to land in Silicon Valley, the traveler would encounter a distinctive dialect of American English. “Disruption” is something to be pursued for its own sake, not mitigated or avoided. “Exit” is not the way out of a building in case of fire, it is the goal that startup companies aim for, when the early investors get rich. A less-remarked but even more revealing entry…