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You could imagine a transhumanist endgame where a subservient majority lives short, mean lives ruled by centenarian aristocrats. It is already true today that the poorest people in this country have a life expectancy nearly [two decades shorter](https://www.ft.com/content/653bbb26-8a22-4db3-b43d-c34a0b774303) than the ultra-wealthy.

Who Gets to Live Forever? With Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez

Tamara Kneese , Santiago Sanchez

This, however, is not only a story of individuals gone rogue. The ugly collective picture of the techno-elites that emerges from the Epstein scandal reveals them as a bunch of morally bankrupt opportunists. To treat their ideas as genuine but wrong is too generous; the only genuine thing about them is their fakeness. Big tech and its apologists do produce the big thoughts – alas, mostly accidental byproducts of them chasing the big bucks.

The Epstein scandal at MIT shows the moral bankruptcy of techno-elites

Evgeny Morozov

Carey’s essay is a sharp rebuke of the dominant trends in internet scholarship and public thinking. He takes issue with its ahistorical rendering of the internet as a revolution unlike any we have witnessed in centuries. He highlights the manifold ways that technological innovation is “embedded in the vital world of politics, economics, religion and culture.”

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