Why governments vs. Big Tech is the wrong question

Washington Got the Better of Elon Musk

Christopher F. Rufo The tech tycoon’s Department of Government Efficiency was prevented from achieving its full reform agenda. It seems that the postmodern world is a conspiracy against great men. Bureaucracy now favors the firm over the founder, and the culture views those who accumulate too much power with suspicion. The twentieth century taught us to fear such men rather than admire them. Elon Musk—who has revolutionized payments, automobile…

Why governments vs. Big Tech is the wrong question

It’s been three and a half years since I first laid out the idea of a technopolar world: one no longer dominated solely by states, but increasingly shaped – and sometimes steered – by a handful of powerful tech companies with the newfound ability to influence economies, societies, politics, and geopolitics.At the time, I said the power of Big Tech was poised to grow but argued governments wouldn’t go down without a fight and sketched out three p…