![handle is hein.journals/yjolt3 and id is 1 raw text is: Note: The following piece dates from 2000-01, at which time the publication
was known as the Yale Symposium on Law and Technology. Page
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Yale Journal of Law and Technology.
Cyberselfish: Ravers, Guilders, Cyberpunks, And Other Silicon Valley Life-
Formst
Paulina Borsook*
Abstract: 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.
Cite as: 4 YALE SYMP. L. & TECH. 4 (2001)
I. INTRODUCTION
1]1 Many of you here, I am sure, have ambitions to become policy wonks.
Conversely, many of you, I am also sure, have come of age during a time
when the stockholder theory of value and deregulation and free-markets
have been held as the only and highest good, and government at best is
seen as a semi-dangerous, semi-dunderheaded animal. You have
instrumental intelligence, or you wouldn't be in law school. Law-making and
law-appealing and law-fudging and law-working-around are, of course, on
your agenda. In addition, many of you here may have ambitions to go work
for getrichkwik.com or to find new ways to profit from the raging
intellectual property wars. I am not going to help you with any of that.
Instead, I am going to talk about and make fun of, to some degree, the
culture of high-tech.
II. THE HIGH-TECH CULTURE
t Edited transcript of remarks delivered to the Yale Law and Technology Society on
September 19, 2000.
: Paulina Borsook is author of the book Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly
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