{"id":25548,"date":"2026-10-20T14:37:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/the-dangers-of-letting-tech-billionaires-shape-our-world\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T14:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T12:37:38","slug":"the-dangers-of-letting-tech-billionaires-shape-our-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/the-dangers-of-letting-tech-billionaires-shape-our-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The dangers of letting tech billionaires shape our world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As SpaceX impacts Ukraine and AI-generated music divides artists and fans, critics are asking what happens when technology has too much control over our lives<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2022\/sep\/20\/sign-up-for-the-techscape-newsletter-our-free-technology-email\"><strong>Sign up to receive it here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you while sitting in front of Roy Lichtenstein\u2019s monumental Drowning Girl, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/oct\/11\/roy-lichtenstein-exhibition-whitney-museum\">on view in New York City<\/a>. Today in tech, we\u2019re discussing the perils of Elon Musk\u2019s one-man global infrastructure, AI-generated music, and a Guardian AI conference in Paris.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global\/2026\/oct\/19\/musk-ukraine-ai-music\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/9df3eaa715484d3f560e4dea76d7dda82597ac00\/188_0_4077_3262\/master\/4077.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b7b903174ee49baa9b374086769320ea\" title=\"The dangers of letting tech billionaires shape our world\" \/>As SpaceX impacts Ukraine and AI-generated music divides artists and fans, critics are asking what happens when technology has too much control over our lives<br \/>\nThis was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. Sign up to receive it here<br \/>\nHello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian, writing to you while sitting in front of Roy Lichtenstein\u2019s monumental Drowning Girl, on view in New York City. Today in tech, we\u2019re discussing the perils of Elon Musk\u2019s one-man global infrastructure, AI-generated music, and a Guardian AI conference in Paris. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As SpaceX impacts Ukraine and AI-generated music divides artists and fans, critics are asking what happens when technology has too much control over our lives This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. Sign up to receive it here Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I\u2019m Blake Montgomery, US tech &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/the-dangers-of-letting-tech-billionaires-shape-our-world\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The dangers of letting tech billionaires shape our world<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25548"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}