Adrian Weckler

So, yes, but I think it's kind of like that, right?

You've got these big wars around the models going on, but actually all of the value or a lot of the value is being created by people

building applications that utilize that just in the same way as the internet.

Like at one point, everybody thought the whole game was the browser, you know, whereas in reality, the whole game was the applications and services that built that were delivered through the browser.

And that's my hope and belief as to what's going to happen.

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Today's IndoDaily comes courtesy of our sister podcast, The Big Tech Show, with Adrian Weckler.

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Now, why is Peter Thiel, the billionaire master of the universe, who is behind half of Silicon Valley's biggest companies, so interested and concerned about the coming of the Antichrist?

And did his recent lecture tour on the topic in Rome, just a few steps away from the Vatican, pass muster with actual scholars?

Well, Dr. Massimo Fagioli is professor in ecclesiology at the Loyola Institute at Trinity College, Dublin.

Originally from Italy, he's worked extensively in the US and has written multiple books and essays about Catholicism.

He's currently writing another one on the history of the Roman Curia and the Vatican.

Massimo, before I ask you about what the Antichrist is, a quick reminder for our listeners and viewers.

that Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire best known for co-founding PayPal in the late 1990s.

That was sold to eBay in 2002.

He's also associated with links to Tesla, LinkedIn, YouTube, because he's part of this PayPal mafia.

He was an early investor in Facebook.

He turned $500,000 of an investment into over a $1 billion return.

And of course, he co-founded Palantir Technologies, which at the moment,