Tech has always been disruptive.

In the early 2000's it was coming from the position of low power, which made it easy to cheer on.

Now tech has become one of the strongest political forces… and is still disruptive, which has a different character.

In the early 2000s the people who came to tech were CS students who were outsiders who did it because they were obsessive about technology itself.

In the 2010s and beyond, it shifted to people optimizing for finance or power: extrinsic results.