Talented people logically want to express those talents in the marketplace. The good news is that they're getting that chance. Thanks to a surge of investor interest in Silicon Valley, companies like Google are, according to Farhad Manjoo of the New York Times, "funding the biggest, most world-changing things. They are spending on ideas that, years from now, we may come to see as having altered life for much of the planet."
Yet despite this happy development, Manjoo is downcast. His concern, if readers can believe it, is that "the American government's appetite for funding big things – for scientific research and out-of-this-world technology and infrastructure programs – keeps falling." Manjoo contends that the latter "sets up a looming complication: Technology giants, not the government, are building the artificially intelligent future."
Let's unpack Manjoo's comments.
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