U.S. Politics and Big Tech Power: Past, Present, and Future

How did the U.S. tech sector and its leaders become so extraordinarily wealthy, market-dominant, and politically consequential in the U.S. and around the world? This talk places the prominent role that U.S. tech leaders and companies are playing in the second Trump era in historical perspective, tracing the evolution of the decades-long relationship between Silicon Valley and Washington DC and the political and economic transformations this relationship has wrought.