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The Audacity Gives Tech Titans a Dramatic Treatment
· New York time
The Audacity, Jonathan Glatzer's darkly comic television drama about AI titans, takes on Silicon Valley's outsized personalities. Its creators and stars discuss material ranging from ayahuasca ceremonies to data mining and punching CEOs. The show's chosen tagline, “Move fast and break people,” adapts Facebook's familiar corporate slogan. That framing puts the human consequences of technological ambition at the center of a story about people accustomed to presenting ambition as its own justification. The entertainment value comes from an industry that already provides elaborate settings, grand declarations and executives eager to explain the future. A fictional founder scarcely needs an extravagant prop when a normal presentation deck can promise to reorganize civilization. Prestige drama has found a sector where the mission statement can do much of the character development.
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