Stephenson called it again
The Trump administration is scrambling coalitions on the right, creating a new, albeit fragile alliance, between go-back-to-the-1950s social conservatives and Silicon Valley let-our-glorious-future-rip effective accelerationists.
This is very close to the general outline of the society that Hackworth lives in in The Diamond Age.
As a young nerd, I was kind of into the Neo-Victorians. As an old nerd, I think Stephenson’s satire was too subtle and the new Silicon Conservatives just missed it.