Cyberselfish

“A wildly prophetic, penetrating book… it was smart at a moment when the whole of the tech industry had gone dumb, and it was funny where Silicon Valley was at its most self-serious.”—WIRED

“[Borsook’s] early observations of the tech world’s anti-government streak have played out far more prophetically, and horrifically, than anyone else could have imagined.” —Slate

“Years before tech figures like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel would rise to challenge democracy, Paulina Borsook saw it coming…. she was right.”—Gil Durán, The Nerd Reich

“Paulina’s smart and humorous assessment…rings true even today.”—Craig Newmark, Founder of Craigslist

“One journalist saw the danger coming long before Big Tech became Big Power….Paulina Borsook’s once-overlooked book is now being republished for a new generation.” —Amanpour & Co

“Chillingly prescient…. Now that Borsook’s worst and most apocalyptic visions have come true tenfold, people are ready to listen.”—Mother Jones

“A timely exploration of the dangerous individualism of high tech.”—Forbes, a Best Book of September

“Cuts through the usual techie propaganda… . Cyberselfish is a fabulous read.” —Seattle Weekly

“An entertaining, black-humored tour of Silicon Valley … Borsook handles cyberian foibles with wit, verve, energy, and aplomb.” —TechDirections

“[Cyberselfish] serves as a welcome corrective to the gung-ho chronicles of the new economy.” —Publishers Weekly

“Cyberselfish wasn’t an artifact. It was a warning. Paulina wasn’t just first. She was specific, documented, and surgically clear. The world caught up. But it didn’t turn around. It’s time.” —Jonathan Sandhu, FakeSoap

“Would be even funnier if it weren’t also so scary.” —The Christian Science Monitor

“Asks pointed, relevant questions and offers learned observations that could be useful to those of us who’ve observed Silicon Valley from afar and yearned for a little illumination.” —Washington Post Book World

“A sharp-witted, thoroughly competent attack on the cornpone Darwinism that drives the Internet’s corporate agenda.” —Toronto Globe & Mail

“With humor and grace, Ms. Borsook provides a platform for those who look at the high-tech whirl and think, ‘Are those people nuts?’” —The Dallas Morning News

Paulina Borsook has worked in and around Northern California tech culture since the early 1980s. Formerly on the masthead of Wired, she has written for multiple tech publications and companies and for countless non-tech publications. She is currently a contributing editor for the magazine “InFormation/every day computers are making people easier to use”, which offers both silly and serious critiques of tech as written by people within it.

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