This graduation season, something unusual kept happening at commencement ceremonies across America. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, stood before ten thousand graduating students at the University of Arizona and told them that Artificial Intelligence (AI) "will touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person and every relationship you have." The crowd booed. At Middle Tennessee State University, Scott Borchetta, the CEO of Big Machine Records, told...

I had just returned from grocery shopping when a familiar restlessness settled over me, the kind that makes you want to hear something you already know but have never fully understood. The bags were still by the door and the cold from outside still clung to my hands when I opened my laptop and let my attention drift across the screen. A playlist of Johann Sebastian Bach appeared almost by accident, as if it had been waiting for me to notice it. I clicked on it without thinking. As I listened,...

The world over, a new elite has, in some way or the other overthrown an older elite. With it, it is attempting to overthrow its...