Billions lost and markets roiled by one man’s indiscretion. Isn’t it now clear that these tech bros are too powerful? | Aditya Chakrabortty

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's affair must be the costliest fling in human history - and a preview of what awaits when the tech bubble bursts

One thing we all know about the tech billionaires is they are super-smart. We know this largely because they never stop telling us. The cognitive elite", to use their favoured phrase, are entitled to shape our future without our say-so. When Elon Musk goes hiring, he wants super-high-IQ small-government revolutionaries". Long before they got private jets, what fuelled these boys was faith in their own brainpower. As a teenager, Jensen Huang wooed his future wife, Lori, thus: If you do homework with me every Sunday, I promise you you'll get straight As."

Lord Byron: I believe it's your move.