The Gap

As reported in Atlantic Sundar Pichai Google CEO struggled to make sense of the questions Congress members put in front of  him

Watching, the main take away was:
Power has been concentrated in systems that few understand, and even fewer can explain. Opaque machines, built by a tiny number of humans, generate the informational landscape for everyone else. The fallback position for technology companies is that, as Pichai said over and over, they build “neutral” systems designed to deliver “relevant” 

The Explainer of Dreams tells story of Biblical Joseph who was sold as a slave by his brothers
The conflict between Joseph and his brothers (led by Judah) was the conflict between a spiritual tradition and a new worldliness, The brothers could not accept that a person can lead a worldly existence without becoming worldly, that a person can remain one with G‑d while immersed in the affairs between a community of shepherds and an entrepreneur. 
 In our times. Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, Richard Brandon, Larry Page and many others are the spiritual descendants of the Biblical dreamers, the ones who knew. They have to surrender their Ego and win over as brothers  the many shepherds from Washington, D.C.

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