The SV Ouroboros: Eating Its Own Future

Ah, the glittering contradictions of Silicon Valley, where the titans of “innovation” hold the steering wheel with one hand and strangle competition with the other. The ecosystem of disruption is now an ant farm encased in venture-backed resin. We’re engineering a conflict to kickstart a future that will take us forward 75 years into the past. 😅

Here’s the playbook: First, you burn down the old to make way for the new. Then, you enclose the commons, erect a few digital toll booths, and call it progress. You get an app for the thing that was free, a subscription for the thing that was a right, and a walled garden where ideas go to die. It’s not about better tech—it’s about owning the platform.

And when we get there? Oh, buddy. It’s 900 moons at warp power back to the future. The sleek, neon-lit tomorrow loops back to a corporate mainframe from 1965, where the difference between General Motors and OpenAI is just the number of paperclips left on the desk. Innovation becomes iteration. The personal computing revolution gets metabolized into the great enclosure of human thought. We build, we consolidate, we rent-seek, and then we wonder why the next Great Leap Forward is just an incremental software update with a bigger price tag.

What’s next? Probably an AI-generated apology for the inefficiency of it all, delivered by a chatbot you can only access via a premium subscription. But don’t worry—it’ll still tell you to “Think Different.”

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