Silicon Valley (and tech capitalism more broadly) tries to sell us the story that they are the vanguard of innovation and technological development, when in fact they bear the deepest responsibility for stifling innovation. The only innovation which is permitted under this regime are innovations in rent-seeking and psychological manipulation. This is why technology has largely settled into a stalemate of proprietary glass rectangles and monopoly platforms. Nothing new can come unless the political economy undergirding the digital realm changes substantially.