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The know-it-alls : the rise of Silicon Valley as a political powerhouse and social wrecking ball / Noam Cohen.
Lippincott Library HD9696.2.U62 C64 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Noam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer industry--United States--Biography.
- Computer industry.
- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.)--Biography.
- Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.).
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County).
- United States.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Libertarianism.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Free Enterprise.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computers & information Technology.
- Local Subjects:
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Libertarianism.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Free Enterprise.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computers & information Technology.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press, [2017]
- 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.
- 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"
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-246) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Cohen, Noam, author. Know-it-alls
- ISBN:
- 9781620972106
- 1620972107
- OCLC:
- 975378073
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