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The writer who dared criticize Silicon Valley
- OhMeadhbh 11mo agoI remember a mild kerfuffle amongst my sili valley friends when this came out, but I never thought to look up the book at the time. In intervening years I thought it would be a decent read but couldn't remember the name or author, so thank you everyone involved for the reminder. I do remember the shift from eighties flavoured techno-utopian brautiganesque libertarianism to the more modern "liberty only means not paying taxes and letting me block off beach access" style. I remember noticing it around '98, which means it was going on for at least a decade beforehand. I can recommend Curtis' documentary "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace." (Named after a Brautigan poem.) And every time people tell me sili valley has always been a hot bed of randian/heinleinian libertarian thought, I like to recommend "What the Doormouse Said." There was a time when things were different.
- mitchbob 11mo agohttps://archive.ph/2025.11.27-104536/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/technology/writer-silicon-valley-criticism.html https://archive.ph/2025.11.27-104536/https://www.nytimes.com...