Why tech oligarchs are willing to risk apocalypse

Peter Thiel in Manhattan on Jan. 7, 2016. When Thiel said the young activist Greta Thunberg represented the spirit of the Antichrist, it “was more than just a hyperbolic slur,” Times columnist Michelle Goldberg writes. “Thiel was expressing a Promethean theology, one that sanctifies technology and expansion.” (Andrew White/The New York Times) By MICHELLE GOLDBERG In a series of private speeches last year, Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor and Silicon Valley thought leader, said the…

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