Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-246) and index.
Contents:
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"
Summary:
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.
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