I feel like this article is just another aspect of the bubble. We have people on the sidelines-- intelligent people, but unaware of what the "tech" industry is actually doing-- cheering on something they hardly understand.

Look, Google is a closed-allocation company. So, I believe, are Apple and Amazon and probably Facebook. Socially, we're stuck in the 1980s. If people at the 99th percentile of technical literacy are still stuck mindlessly churning tickets in closed-allocation environments-- note that basic research funding has fallen off a cliff in the past 30 years-- and raising VC is still more about playing a feudal reputation economy than anything remotely approaching excellence, then what are most of the world's 7.1 billion people going to be able to contribute to this brave new world? Nothing. They'll have no leverage, nor the resources to learn what they need to learn because they'll have to spend all their time on basic survival. The only thing that seems to await the majority, barring some unforeseen social or economic right angle (the long-term odds of which are quite high) is joblessness.

We can't even deliver basic healthcare to middle-class Americans anymore, and here we have the gall to say that humanity's approaching some technotopia?