ArsT: One doesn't usually think of this community [Silicon Valley folks] as being anti-science. Yet in your book you argue that these futuristic visions aren't based on sound science at all, which seems paradoxical.
Becker: They actually have a great contempt for expertise. They don't see it as necessary because they think that they're the smartest people who've ever lived [...] If they were wrong about anything, then why would they have been so financially successful?