Brockman,J. Digerati. 1996
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.
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