Brockman, John. Digerati: Encounters With the Cyber Elite. San Francisco: Hardwired, 1996. 354 pages.

This slick book was put together by modish literary agent and elitist panderer John Brockman. It was published by a self-indulgent Wired Magazine spinoff that announced their takeover of the universe in 1994 and began downsizing by 1997. Between Brockman in New York City and Wired in San Francisco, whether you go across the U.S. or around the globe, no one seemed to notice; archaeologists of the future will have a tough time figuring out these pages. Neither Linux nor GNU are mentioned even once, and Bill Gates is a hero. "Part of my charm is that I am always wrong," says Brockman.

Nevertheless, it's useful to get these high-tech mavens on the record, if only to keep them too embarrassed to venture a comment (or start a bogus gold rush) the next time around. There are separate chapters based on interviews with Stewart Alsop, John Perry Barlow, Stewart Brand, David Bunnell, Doug Carlston, Denise Caruso, Steve Case, John C. Dvorak, Esther Dyson, Bill Gates, David Gelernter, Mike Godwin, W. Daniel Hillis, David R. Johnson, Brewster Kahle, Kevin Kelly, Jaron Lanier, Ted Leonsis, John Markoff, John McCrea, Scott McNealy, Jane Metcalfe, Kip Parent, Howard Rheingold, Louis Rossetto, Paul Saffo, Bob Stein, Cliff Stoll, Linda Stone, Lew Tucker, Sherry Turkle, Dave Winer, and Richard Saul Wurman. If this seems cool to you, they may all be yakking away still at www.edge.org.
ISBN 1-888869-04-6

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