Cyberselfish : A Critical Romp Through the Terribly

Stock Code:
BAE3852
Price:
$15.00

Description

Cyberselfish : A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture by Paulina Borsook. 'A well-wired journalist/provocateur takes a sparkling, irreverent trip through the subcultures of cyberculture--and offers a rabble-rousing critique of the political myopia of the high tech world.. Paulina Borsook has been stirring up a ruckus in Silicon Valley since her days as a regular contributor to Wired magazine. She will ruffle feathers again with this 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."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.'

Details

  • Author:
    Borsook, Paulina
  • Book Condition:
    Good Plus
  • Publisher:
    Perseus Book Group
  • Edition:
    First Thus
  • Jacket Condition:
    Good Plus
  • Binding:
    Hard Cover
  • Location:
    A6
  • ISBN:
    1891620789
  • Size:
    8vo
  • Pages:
    276
  • Publish Date:
    2000
Stock Level:
1 In Stock
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