@chrisg Both he, Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel and Eric Schmidt have been saying the quiet part out loud for a while now - but I don't think this is going to be the *next* tech grift. It's the *current* tech grift; it's been going strong for a long time already."Orwellian surveillance" has felt quaint to me since at least 2015 (when I wrote a silly little short story on that theme). The data eg. Meta has on a Western citizen in 2024 dwarfs what Cold War totalitarian secret police had on theirs.