Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Sci-Fi They Grew Up on Real

"The Laundry Files" is one of Charles Stross's (the author of this article) fun series, although it's more a kind of urban (bureaucratic) fantasy than sci-fi.

I'm surprised he doesn't touch on AI at all in this article. To me, AI companies heavily depend on the implications that the "AI" moniker (as well as "learning", "neural network," etc.) carries from many years of human-like reasoning machines appearing in science fiction, and I think there would be much less momentum if they were called something else.

I grew up on Star Trek. When I was 10 years old, I made a communicator out of paper. When I was 30 years old, I had a real communicator that looked a whole lot like the one on Star Trek, and I think the tech billionaires for that and many other improvements to the human condition.

US progress is based on three pillars: capital allocation, modern risk management and tech visionaries.