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And that feels ultimately like what these billboards-like the faceless eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg a hundred years before—are telling us about America's new Gilded Age: so much of our public discourse, so many of our vaunted institutions, so much of our collective attention, care, and heartbreak…

I begin to picture someone who works for one of the small "family offices," investment funds charged with increasing the fortune of a single wealthy family. When it comes to venture funds, family offices are often at the back of the line. A venture capitalist would much rather have a pension fund, …

No, it feels like these billboards are a sunk-cost fallacy given physical form. They appear to be here for people who have already invested, or are fairly certain they're about to invest. This is why they are so maddeningly withholding. That's why this advertising is so unbearably self-absorbed. Fo…

Just as Fox News sometimes runs segments with exactly one viewer in mind (President Donald Trump, these billboards have a target audience that runs in the low double digits. For all their parochialism, these billboards stake a claim to the world. It's unlikely there are billboards for these compani…

Silicon Valley has returned, with fire and fury. It does not promise a world in which Al makes previously unimaginable things possible but a world in which only Al companies can protect you from AI. "You" in this case being the owner of a tech company, not a regular user, citizen, human being. For …