In his latest piece for Prospect Magazine, Ethan Zuckerman argues that the parade of sometimes left-field ideas latched onto by tech billionaires is better understood as a projection of their "the hopes and fears." In the article, titled "Why tech billionaires dream of servers in the sky," Zuckerman contends that AI leaders like Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk are attracted to such concepts because they allow them to be untethered to governments, law, and the social contract.
Ethan Zuckerman: Data centers in space a signal of tech billionaire worries