b'We recognize the futility of too much money in politics, but we keep pouring money in, hoping that our good money will be an antidote to their bad money. We know that the stock market is driven by the next 100 million meat eaters in China, the next 200 million car buyers in India, the next 500 million bottles of Coca-Cola purchased in Africa, the next $10 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, but we cling to the Dow Jones Industrial Average as a daily security blanket and a long-term guidepost for the management of our national and personal wealth. Once we flip the coin on this cognitive dissonance, we can begin to find our way from the Old World of venture capital to the New World of nurture capital. It seems oxymoronic to call venture capital, the financial epicenter of technological innovation, the Old World. Yet venture capitalists and technology company CEOs are, if you look past all the shiny objects, a kind of modern incarnation of royalty. This is why our reaction to tech magnates is so muddled. The promise of disruptive, next-economy tech entrepreneurs has given way to an elite of T-shirt-wearing robber barons. The promise of nonhierarchical, highly participatory networks has produced the largest shareholder-value-driven companies in history. The promise of unlimited information at your fingertips has turned into a fire hose of voyeurism and anonymous mischief-making. The promise of Do No Evil has resulted in electricity-guzzling server farms the size of football fields and privacy issues of unprecedented complexity.87'