Watch the first episode of Mike Judge's Silicon Valley above.Silicon Valley is probably the world's chief exporter of lazy utopian ideals: the institutions of old must be disrupted, evil must not be done, and everyone must have access to good data, information, and apps. Mostly apps.The industry's penchant for self-aggrandizement has been the subject of ample criticism and satire already—see George Packer's New Yorker takedown, the Onion's TED-skewering Onion Talks, and Valleywag, the Gawker blog dedicated to taking the piss out of the tech world. But Silicon Valley, Mike Judge's new HBO show about a ragtag new startup, might be the first pop culture product to astutely critique how the self-avowed world-changing sausage actually gets made. It's also funny as hell.
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