What Ted Gioia thinks about Silicon Valley
Music critic and cultural historian, author of eleven books including Music: A Subversive History, who writes The Honest Broker on Substack about music, books, media and culture. His 2024 "State of the Culture" essay put the phrase "dopamine culture" into wide circulation.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ted Gioia has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsMost of the world’s free time has now been monetized by tech companies. In fact, the monetization of leisure time is how Silicon Valley execs make their billions.
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