Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want

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The piece criticizes Silicon Valley for treating familiar ideas as breakthroughs.
Examples from LLMs, Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Juicero show how tech culture often ignores prior knowledge and history.
The broader problem is that obsession with novelty can crowd out context, user needs, and real product insight.
When builders mistake rediscovery for invention, they risk shallow thinking and worse decisions.



