Dex Hunter-Torricke

That early idealistic moment in that journey of tech, for me, was the Arab Spring.

I remember walking into the hall at Google when news came through that the Egyptian government had fallen.

People started cheering.

It was literally like, there is something in the world happening, fueled, combined with the power of technology, people power, plus these instruments for mass communication and collaboration, suddenly exerting dramatic shifts in societies.

But it's very hard, I think, to think of that's the domino that played the central role when really...

there were so many interconnected systems that really were breaking at the same time.

The failures of leadership were happening on any number of fronts, right?

Disinformation on Facebook, right?

You've got the failures of platforms to think through how algorithms would shape content and shape communities.

But at the same time, you had a global order breaking down in which nations like Russia, Iran, China,

The US, a whole bunch of people were all employing cyber weapons and looking to drive influence operations through social media and to weaponize all of those new platforms in order to achieve their geopolitical interests.

That's a reality too.

And so you can't just, you know, look at one of these problems.

You've got to actually have a thesis on how all these things play out together.

Don't go anywhere because we've got more What Now?

after this.

I left Facebook in 2016, but I was still in the tech industry.

I was waiting for Elon then when I was at SpaceX.

And so I went to the space industry, which is something that should be deeply hopeful.

I mean, I grew up watching Star Trek.