Tech’s Tarnished Halo

How Silicon Valley’s declining image is dimming America’s light.

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Remember when Silicon Valley was America’s greatest export?

It wasn’t so long ago—just over a decade—that Silicon Valley occupied a rarefied space in the global imagination. The founders of American technology companies were the great disruptors, the optimists, the engineers who would remake sclerotic political systems and extractive industries. While politicians dithered, Big Tech would engineer solutions.

Remember when Silicon Valley was America’s greatest export?

It wasn’t so long ago—just over a decade—that Silicon Valley occupi

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