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Reason
Brian Doherty

The Cyberselfish Revival Shows Libertarianism Continues To Be Misunderstood

Paulina Borsook was an early writer for Wired magazine in the 1990s who became alarmed by what she saw as the encroachment of sinister libertarian ideas in the culture of a tech business world which, she correctly noted in her 2000 book Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech, had "the big bucks, and cultural juice, that will be affecting us all as we head into the next millennium."

An unimpeachable observation in 2000, but far from a visionary or unusual one, to finger Big Tech as highly influential on America's future. The New York Times recently reported on what its journalist believes is a wide revival of interest in her ideas.

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