Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers
中文摘要
历史学家 Jill Lepore 在新书中提出“人造国家”概念，批评硅谷科技公司通过宏大语言模仿政府行为。
English Summary
Historian Jill Lepore critiques Silicon Valley companies for using grand language to mimic government authority, a concept she calls the "Artificial State."
Original Excerpt
Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as if they’re forming a new government. And whether you’re thinking of Twitter’s old “town hall in your pocket” or Anthropic’s Claude constitution, it’s a theory that doesn’t paint Silicon Valley in a very flattering light. In Lepore’s upcoming book, The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State, the Pulitzer […]