Cyberselfish: Ravers, Guilders, Cyberpunks, And Other Silicon Valley Life-Forms

By Paulina Borsook

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Paulina Borsook, Cyberselfish: Ravers, Guilders, Cyberpunks, And Other Silicon Valley Life-Forms, 3 Yale Journal of Law & Technology 4 (2001).

Paulina Borsook, high-tech cultural commentator and author of Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, discusses Silicon Valley's paradoxical "technolibertarian" attitude towards the government and the Big Capital Establishment who made the meteoric rise of the technology industry possible. Borsook, in deconstructing the myth of the freewheeling Silicon Valley technogogue, exposes the fragile connections between the Randian pretensions of today's near-religious egotism and the genuinely libertarian fringe from the salad days of the Internet.