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Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech
Paulina Borsook · 2000 · PublicAffairs
A Wired contributing writer's critique of the libertarian mindset she observed among Silicon Valley technologists in the 1990s, and how that outlook shaped the industry's relationship to government and community.
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Summary
First published in 2000, the book argues that a strain of libertarian politics took hold among Silicon Valley technologists in the 1990s — a belief in individualism and free markets that, Borsook contends, sat uneasily with an industry that had itself benefited heavily from government research funding. Drawing on her own years working in and writing about Northern California tech culture, she profiles the people and attitudes behind this "technolibertarianism" and its effect on how the industry related to government and community.
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Paulina Borsook
Paulina Borsook is an American technology journalist and author who has written for Wired, Mother Jones, and Suck.com. She became a contributing writer at Wired in the 1990s, where her short story "Love Over The Wires" was the magazine's first published fiction. She is best known for Cyberselfish (2000), a critique of the libertarian mindset she observed in the digital technology community.
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