Tech elite treat total connectivity and information as unquestioned articles of faith

Evidence

Silicon Valley is the axis mundi of inevitabilism. Among high-tech leaders, within the specialist literature, and among expert professionals there appears to be universal agreement on the idea that everything will be connected, knowable, and actionable in the near future: ubiquity and its consequences in total information are an article of faith. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 694

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the phrase ‘axis mundi of inevitabilism’ as a coinage for Silicon Valley’s central position.
• XREF: connects to: Tech CEOs publicly described total knowledge of users as their ambition — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1581

Broader Connections

• Tech CEOs publicly described total knowledge of users as their ambition #exemplifies (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1581