The Transformation of Tech Culture: From Counterculture Idealism to Oligarchic Power

Twenty-second-century historians tracing the ascent of American technocracy from quirky garage tinkerers grooving on the Whole Earth Catalog to sinister oligarchs enacting Philip K. Dick prophesies may locate its apogee in four lectures that Peter Thiel delivered at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club in September and October 2025.

In the seventeenth, eighteenth century, the Antichrist would have been a Dr. Stran

Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they're greedy monopolists who'd sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped.