What "Silicon Valley" TV Show Knew About Tech-Bro Paternalism

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13 points·ryan_j_naughton··8 comments

I was under the impression that Taco Bell would win the restaurant wars, resulting in a caste of tired revolutionary types living in the sewers of society and being neuralized by thought-police for anything perceived as immoral or offensive to the high church.

Mellow greetings, sir. What seems to be your boggle?

In the DVD release of Demolition Man they dubbed out "Taco Bell" and replaced it with "Pizza Hut", which seemed so appropriate.

Taco Bell is the perfect brand name to use for the movie's idea.

A taco being one key, the bell being another.

The RESTaurant wars, or the fight for representativeness, is a very specific narrow message.

Rich people snobbing their tiny food on the TV while the poor live subjulgated to the deeps, mostly without any access to food of any kind, is a quite an accurate metaphor for this day and age and illustrates problems of patternalism, tech perversion, "kind neuralizing policemen" and many other problems of our current digital age.

It's brilliant. It also, contrary to the Sillicon Valley series, portrays people as people, not as a bunch of rats.

Hello! Please type in your boggle account address.

That's because Silicon Valley had actual story consultants from the Valley.

Among them:

- Todd Silverstein, founder Vizify

- Tsachy Weissman, Professor Electronic Engineering, Stanford University

- Dick Costolo, frmr CEO Twitter

- Jonathan Dotan, founding director of the Starling Lab and Fellow at the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research, Stanford University

And more.

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