For centuries, extreme optimism in the wisdom of the crowds has lied dormant. But, it appears that the knowledge economy is giving this old idealism new life. It is quite literally the basis of many billion-dollar industries.

As Facebook founding President Sean Parker explained to me, “It’s the hacker ethic that a lot of problems in the world are information inefficiencies.”

Future chapters in this series will explore why Silicon Valley has chosen the Democratic party as a vessel to attain their goals and how the profitability of the knowledge economy is making this new ideology quite powerful.

Silicon Valley represents an entirely new political category