Institutionalizing Tech Elites

Technological revolutions need matching cultural and legal institutions if their gains are to persist; Silicon Valley (and like tech elites) should deliberately design schools, patronage networks, governance norms, and legal frameworks to reproduce a durable, pro‑innovation civic order rather than treating breakthroughs as self‑sustaining. — This reframes debates about AI and tech policy from short‑term regulation and investment to a multi‑decadal project of elite institution‑building with consequences for democracy, inequality, and national power.