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Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s future – ‘Mountainhead’ could be real
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” the famed computer scientist Alan Kay once said. Uttered more out of exasperation than as inspiration, his remark has nevertheless attained gospel-like status among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, in particular a handful of tech billionaires who fancy themselves the chief architects of humanity’s future. Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and others may have slightly different goals and ambitions in the near term, but their grand visions for the next decade and beyond are remarkably similar.
If you want to see how this could happen, please watch Mountainhead
Want to see what happens when someone becomes an AI billionaire ? Watch “Mountainhead” on HULU and HBO and be very very afraid.
A wry smackdown of four insanely rich bros hanging out at a gaudy estate in the Utah mountains, the movie generates a decent amount of laughs, but it’s best when Armstrong puts satire aside for rage, seething at the tech kingpins destroying our society to increase their profits. If Succession was a bitingly hilarious drama, Mountainhead is an ostensible comedy in which the laughs get caught in your throat.
