Silicon Valley
The region in Northern California known as the hub of the technology industry, used broadly as a metonym for the tech sector, its dominant platform companies, and its associated ideology and culture of innovation.
Claims that use this term
- Silicon Valley escape fantasies abandon politics while hiding their own power.
- Hollywood film worlds preceded Silicon Valley as popular metaverses
- Silicon Valley platforms were credited with enabling the Arab Spring uprisings
- Silicon Valley framed the Arab Spring as proof of the internet’s political power
- Web 2.0 ideology diluted hacker radicalism through Silicon Valley orthodoxy.
- Web 2.0 ideology fuses Silicon Valley capitalism with countercultural activism while embracing capitalism