The know-it-alls
Subtitle: the rise of Silicon Valley as a political powerhouse and social wrecking ball
By: Noam Cohen
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781620972106
Subjects: Social aspects; Computer industry; Biography; Information technology
Description: Chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force in American life and its libertarian vision of a hypercompetitive society without the protection of unions, government regulations, or social welfare programs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-246) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "To serve man"; title: John McCarthy: "Solving today's problems tomorrow"; title: Frederick Terman: "Stanford can be a dominating factor in the West"; title: Bill Gates: "Most of all you steal your software"; title: Marc Andreesen: "By the power vested in me by no one in particular"; title: Jeff Bezos: "When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?"; title: Sergey Brin and Larry Page: "It was like, wow, maybe we really should start a company now"; title: Peter Theil: "Monopolists lie to protect themselves"; title: Reid Hoffman et al.: "My membership in a notable corporate alumni group in Silicon Valley has opened the door..."; title: Jimmy Wales: "Wikipedia is something special"; title: Mark Zuckerberg: "Nerds win"; title: The future: "Local, small-scale, active"