The know-it-alls : the rise of Silicon Valley as a political powerhouse and social wrecking ball / Noam Cohen
By: Cohen, Noam [author].
Publisher: New York : The New Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: 256 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781620972106.Subject(s): Computer industry -- United States -- Biography | Information technology -- Social aspects | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Libertarianism | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Free Enterprise | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computers & information Technology | Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- BiographyGenre/Form: Biographies. | Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HD9696.2.U62 C64 2017 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000011995 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-246) and index
Introduction: "To serve man" -- John McCarthy: "Solving today's problems tomorrow" -- Frederick Terman: "Stanford can be a dominating factor in the West" -- Bill Gates: "Most of all you steal your software" -- Marc Andreesen: "By the power vested in me by no one in particular" -- Jeff Bezos: "When it's tough, will you give up, or will you be relentless?" -- Sergey Brin and Larry Page: "It was like, wow, maybe we really should start a company now" -- Peter Theil: "Monopolists lie to protect themselves" -- Reid Hoffman et al.: "My membership in a notable corporate alumni group in Silicon Valley has opened the door..." -- Jimmy Wales: "Wikipedia is something special" -- Mark Zuckerberg: "Nerds win" -- The future: "Local, small-scale, active"
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