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OverviewThis enormously controversial take on high tech culture combines common sense with an old-fashioned humanism to make sense of the current high-tech gestalt. -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times. Paulina Borsook has been stirring up a ruckus in Silicon Valley since her days as a regular contributor to Wired magazine. She ruffled feathers again with Cyberselfish, a spirited, funny, gimlet-eyed look at the worldview of the digerati-one she terms violently lacking in compassion, ravingly anti-government, and tremendously opposed to regulation. PublicAffairs' new trade paperback edition is updated throughout, and includes a new afterword by the author addressing the cat calls, jeers, and cries of foul from the world of high tech that greeted the hardcover. In Cyberselfish Borsook journeys through and rants about high tech culture, profiling the worlds of ravers, gilders, cypherpunks, anarchocapitalists, and other Silicon Valley life forms; and exploring the theory and practice of what she dubs technolibertarianism in all its manifestations. Whether she is attending Bionomics conferences or hanging out with Wired staffers, reading personal ads or evaluating high-tech's sorry philanthropic record, Borsook is full of original observations, mordant wit, and furious passion that readers wake up to the social and political consequences of having computer geeks run the world. Cyberselfish raises the hackles of high techies and clarifies what makes the rest of us so nervous about the brave new cyberworld. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paulina BorsookPublisher: PublicAffairs,U.S. Imprint: PublicAffairs,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.371kg ISBN: 9781586480387ISBN 10: 1586480383 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 07 June 2001 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Unknown Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |