I'm a composer. Am I staring extinction in the face?': classical music and AI
Generative AI threatens to replace professional creatives across roles, transforming Silicon Valley culture and normalizing futurist certainty amid opulent startup settings.
Specialty Film Festivals Bring Stories to Silicon Valley Screens
The Silicon Valley African Film Festival grew from a classroom screening to a major event showcasing 92 African-made films from 32 countries to counter stereotyped portrayals.
Doomers at the Rose Lipman Building Theatre That Confronts Ourselves & Our Times Review
A two-act play dramatizes a tech-industry ethical crisis around a flawed AI, exposing ego-driven characters, moral dilemmas, and powerful performances.
Nick Clegg urges Britain to rediscover optimism and tells Silicon Valley to drop the self pity
Britain has lost optimism about the future while American cultural confidence and market scale drive stronger economic momentum; Silicon Valley leaders react poorly to criticism.
Former Meta exec Nick Clegg offers careful criticism of 'cloyingly conformist' Silicon Valley | TechCrunch
I really do believe that, despite its imperfections, social media has allowed billions of people ... to communicate with each other in a way that has never happened before,