2024 could be one of the most pivotal years in American history. As the founder of an AI company, I must warn that it shouldn’t be because of AI. As I argue in my new book, The Coming Wave: Technology, Power & the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma, all technology is political. From the printing press to modern weaponry, satellite communications to databases, states and technologies are intimately tied together.
While it may not come with an explicit political purpose, technology is a form of power. And from the earliest tools to today’s world of social media and generative AI, it comes with major social and political consequences.
