Here is what I am presently puzzling over:
From the review essay "Better, Faster, Stronger" by Ben Tarnoff, reviewing two new books about Palo Alto and Silicon Valley, in the September 21, 2023, issue of New York Review of Books, at 38:
"What unites them [the founders, engineers, lawyers, venture capitalists, and Stanford kids who compose Silicon Valley] is a commitment to disruption. Disruption is not merely a business strategy but a worldview that celebrates the creative destruction of existing institutions It also contains a particular theory of history: that technology makes the past along with the forms of expertise that arise from studying it irrelevant.
I will parse this in posts to come.