I’m glad that people are re-upping stuff from the past, because I remember. No, not everyone thought these people were wonderful.
She Warned About Silicon Valley 25 Years Ago. We Ignored Her. Journalist Paulina Borsook warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer Gil Duran 25 Sep 2025 A longtime Wired* editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (and still doesn’t get it). But in the late 1990s, a different Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook, a freelance writer, has largely been erased.
Another peek at the history of Silicon Valley is in the book Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris.
Tech Won’t Save Us – 23 02 16 #155 – The Untold History of Silicon Valley – Malcolm Harris