Cybertopia: Dreams of Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley, California. This is the location of the planet’s most forward-thinking dreamers. They come together to imagine and create a new digital reality that transcends politics, war and other troubles that negatively affect society’s growth and stability. Cybertopia: Dreams of Silicon Valley takes us to the center of this technological revolution, it introduces us to the individuals who hope to alter the brave new world through the power of their vision.
“The internet is the largest free market experiment that involves politics, information and commerce,” entrepreneur Kevin O’Connor says the internet is the largest free market experiment that involves politics, information and commerce. O’Connor has collaborated with a group of young, innovative creatives, this has helped him to create a web resource that allows users to compare services and businesses from around the world, including those that are associated with governmental agencies. By providing a platform that is unprecedented in its transparency, O’Connor and his team hope to instill a more informed and empowered public, greater scrutiny of unethical practices in various industries, and a stronger capitalistic system that promotes the cream over the dregs.
The counterculture of the past relied on peaceful protests and messages of universal love to instigate change in the world and its leaders. Today, a replica of that culture still exists. Only protests and peace signs have been supplanted by product development and programming code.
Silicon Valley is the site of this doctrine’s focal point. “It’s primarily this desire to create that permeates the Valley,” says David E. Weekly, a Google product manager. Occasionally, the results of this creativity and outside-of-the-box thinking can have a significant impact on our lives, as evidenced by the success stories of pioneers like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Elon Musk. If anything is paramount to their philosophy, and the character of the region itself, it’s the embrace of previously unattainable possibilities.
The ultimate goal of the leaders of this movement is the creation of a utopian society, in which the environments relegated to virtual reality platforms are made real by people in the real world. Most intriguingly, Cybertopia: Dreams of Silicon Valley teases us with the notion of a world in which citizens can travel to other planets and redefine the role of government in their homeland by creating territories that they can govern best.
