Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech - Softcover

Borsook, Paulina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1638935793 ISBN 13: 9781638935797

Verlag: Tin House, 2026

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Truer now than when it was written—the prophetic classic now back in print.

Twenty-six years after its original publication, Borsook’s “smart, funny and irreverent” (The New York Times) critique of high-tech has proved a prescient assessment of a toxic ethos which has seeped into every corner of our world.

Cyberselfish saw the warning signs about a culture violently lacking in compassion, tremendously opposed to regulation, more comfortable with computers than people, and surprisingly ignorant. An ironic position, given this cohort was perhaps the single biggest recipient of the greatest government subsidy of technology and expansion in history. But it is also a culture that believes in Ayn Rand and the stockholder theory of value and acts as if privacy isn't for the Little People.

Borsook foresaw that once tech boomed to new heights of financial success, those at the helm would feel their achievement in one sphere should result in greater power and influence in others. Today, as titans of the tech world have inserted themselves even further into all aspects of society, Borsook’s insights have become more universally applicable than even she could have imagined. But what will result if the people who shape public policy know nothing about history or political science or, most importantly, how to interact with other humans? Cyberselfish posits this is the true revenge of the nerds.

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Paulina Borsook has worked in and around Northern California tech culture since the early 1980s. Formerly on the masthead of Wired, she has written for multiple tech publications and companies and for countless non-tech publications. She is currently a contributing editor for the magazine "InFormation/every day computers are making people easier to use", which offers both silly and serious critiques of tech as written by people within it.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Tin House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1638935793
• ISBN 13: 9781638935797
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336
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