The Internet Is Not the Answer (42 page)

35 Packer, “Change the World.”

36 Ibid.

37 Guynn, “San Francisco Split by Silicon Valley’s Wealth.”

38 Stephanie Gleason and Rachel Feintzeig, “Startups Are Quick to Fire,”
New York Times
, December 12, 2013.

39 See, for example, Eric Ries,
The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
(New York: Crown, 2011).

40 Quentin Hardy, “Technology Workers Are Young (Really Young),”
New York Times
, July 5, 2013.

41 Vivek Wadhwa, “A Code Name for Sexism and Racism,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 7, 2013.

42 Jon Terbush, “The Tech Industry’s Sexism Problem Is Only Getting Worse,”
The Week
, September 12, 2013.

43 Jessica Guynn, “Sexism a Problem in Silicon Valley, Critics Say,”
Los Angeles Times
, October 24, 2013.

44 Terbush, “The Tech Industry’s Sexism Problem Is Only Getting Worse.”

45 Elissa Shevinsky, “That’s It—I’m Finished Defending Sexism in Tech,”
Business Insider
, September 9, 2013.

46 Max Taves, “Bias Claims Surge Against Tech Industry,”
Recorder
, August 16, 2013.

47 Colleen Taylor, “Key Details of the Kleiner Perkins Gender Discrimination Lawsuit,”
TechCrunch
, May 22, 2012.

48 Alan Berube, “All Cities Are Not Created Unequal,” Brookings Institution, February 20, 2014.

49 Timothy Egan, “Dystopia by the Bay,”
New York Times
, December 5, 2013.

50 Marissa Lagos, “San Francisco Evictions Surge, Reports Find,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, November 5, 2013.

51 Carolyn Said, “Airbnb Profits Prompted S.F. Eviction, Ex-Tenant Says,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, January 22, 2014.

52 Ibid.

53 Casy Miner, “In a Divided San Francisco, Private Tech Buses Drive Tension,”
NPR.org
, December 17, 2013.

54 Andrew Gumbel, “San Francisco’s Guerrilla Protest at Google Buses Wells into Revolt,”
Observer
, January 25, 2014.

55 Carmel DeAmicis, “BREAKING: Protesters Attack Google Bus in West Oakland,”
Pando Daily
, December 20, 2013.

56 Robin Wilkey, “Peter Shih ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ Post Draws San Francisco’s Ire, Confirms Startup Stereotypes,”
Huffington Post
, August 16, 2013.

57 Jose Fitzgerald, “Real Tech Worker Says SF Homeless ‘Grotesque,’ ‘Degenerate,’ ‘Trash,’”
San Francisco Bay Guardian
, December 11, 2013.

58 Yasha Levine, “Occupy Wall Street Leader Now Works for Google, Wants to Crowdfund a Private Militia,”
Pando Daily
, February 7, 2014.

59 J. R. Hennessy, “The Tech Utopia Nobody Wants: Why the World Nerds Are Creating Will Be Awful,”
Guardian
, July 21, 2014.

60 Krissy Clark, “What Did the Tech CEO Say to the Worker He Wanted to Automate?,”
Marketplace.org
, August 28, 2013.

61 Solnit, “Google Invades.”

62 Justine Sharrock, “How San Francisco Tech Companies Justify Their Tax Breaks,”
Buzzfeed
, October 8, 2013.

63 Sam Biddle, “This Asshole Misses the Shutdown,”
Valleywag
, October 17, 2013.

64 Max Read, “Oakland Residents Are Crowdfunding a Private Police Force,”
Valleywag
, October 4, 2013.

65 Lisa Fernandez, “Facebook Will Be First Private Company in U.S. to Pay for Full-Time Beat Cop,”
NBCBayArea.com
, March 5, 2014.

66 Geoffrey A. Fowler and Brenda Cronin, “Freelancers Get Jobs Via Web Services,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 29, 2013.

67 Greg Kumparak, “Larry Page Wants Earth to Have a Mad Scientist Island,”
TechCrunch
, May 2015.

68 Sean Gallagher, “Larry Page Wants You to Stop Worrying and Let Him Fix the World,” Ars Technica, May 20, 2013.

69 “What Is Burning Man?,”
burningman.com/whatisburningman
.

70 Nick Bilton, “A Line Is Drawn in the Desert,”
New York Times,
August 20, 2014.

71 Kevin Roose, “The Government Shutdown Has Revealed Silicon Valley’s Dysfunctional Fetish,”
New York
, October 16, 2013.

72 Chris Anderson, “Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars,”
Wired
, October 21, 2010.

73 Peter Delevett, “Tech Investor Tim Draper Launches ‘Six Californias’ Ballot Measure to Divide the Golden State,”
San Jose Mercury News
, December 23, 2013.

74 Aaron Kinney, “Martins Beach: Lawmaker Proposes Eminent Domain for Access on Khosla’s Property,”
San Jose Mercury News
, February 6, 2014.

75 Bill Wasik, “Silicon Valley Needs to Lose the Arrogance or Risk Destruction,”
Wired
, February 2, 2014.

76 Chris Baker, “Live Free or Down: Floating Utopias on the Cheap,”
Wired
, January 19, 2009.

77 Egan, “Dystopia by the Bay.”

78 Alex Hern, “Google Execs Saved Millions on Private Jet Flights Using Cheaper NASA Fuel,”
Guardian
, December 12, 2013.

79 Paul Goldberger, “Exclusive Preview: Google’s New Build-from-Scratch Googleplex,”
Vanity Fair
, February 22, 2013.

80 Allen Martin, “Google Launches Private SF Bay Ferry Service to Shuttle Workers,” CBS Local News, January 7, 2014.

81 Philop Matier and Andrew Ross, “Google Barge Mystery Unfurled,
SFGate
, November 8, 2013.

82 Tony Romm, “Senate Investigators: Apple Sheltered $44 Billion from Taxes,”
Politico
, May 20, 2103.

83 Bob Duggan, “Are Tech Giants’ Offices the Cathedrals of the Future?,”
BigThink.com
, December 12, 2013.

84 Thomas Schulz, “From Apple to Amazon: The New Monuments to Digital Domination,” Spiegel Online, November 29, 2013.

85 Brandon Bailey, “Mark Buys Four Houses Near His Palo Alto Home,”
San Jose Mercury News
, October 11, 2013.

86 Allison Arieff, “What Tech Hasn’t Learned from Urban Planning,”
New York Times
, December 13, 2013.

87 Charlotte Allen, “Silicon Chasm: The Class Divide on America’s Cutting Edge,”
Weekly Standard
, December 2, 2013.

88 Tom Foremski, “Fortune Asks ‘Why Does America Hate Silicon Valley?’,”
Silicon Valley Watcher
, October 4, 2013.

Conclusion

1 Thomas Friedman, “The Square People, Part One,”
New York Times
, May 13, 2014. See also “The Square People, Part Two,”
New York Times
, May 17, 2014.

2 Edward Luce, “America Must Dump Its Disrupters in 2014,”
Financial Times
, December 22, 2014.

3 Nick Cohen, “Beware the Lure of Mark Zuckerberg’s Cool Capitalism,”
Observer
, March 30, 2013.

4 Fred Turner,
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
(University of Chicago Press, 2008).

5 For more on Apple, Steve Jobs, and Foxconn, see my TechCrunchTV interview with Mike Daisey, who starred in the Broadway hit
The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
: “Apple and Foxconn, TechCrunchTV, February 1, 2011.

6 Lyn Stuart Parramore, “What Does Apple Really Owe Taxpayers? A Lot, Actually,” Reuters, June 18, 2013.

7 Jo Confino, “How Technology Has Stopped Evolution and Is Destroying the World,”
Guardian
, July 11, 2013.

8 Alexis C. Madrigal, “Camp Grounded, ‘Digital Detox,’ and the Age of Techno-Anxiety,”
Atlantic
,
July 2013.

9 Oliver Burkman, “Conscious Computing: How to Take Control of Our Life Online,”
Guardian,
May 10, 2013.

10 Jemima Kiss, “An Online Magna Carta: Berners-Lee Calls for Bill of Rights for Web,”
Guardian
, March 11, 2014.

11 “Bitcloud Developers Plan to Decentralize Internet,” BBC Technology News, January 23, 2014.

12 Suzanne Labarre, “Why We’re Shutting Off Our Comments,”
Popular Science
, September 24, 2013; Elizabeth Landers, “
Huffington Post
to Ban Anonymous Comments,” CNN, August 22, 2013.

13 “Data Protection: Angela Merkel Proposes Europe Network,” BBC News, February 15, 2014.

14 Philip Oltermann, “Germany ‘May Revert to Typewriters’ to Counter Hi-Tech Espionage,”
Guardian,
July 15, 2014.

15 Lanier,
Who Owns the Future?
, p. 263.

16 John Gapper, “Bitcoin Needs to Grow out of Its Obsessive Adolescence,”
Financial Times
, March 12, 2014. See also
new.livestream.com/theNYPL/businessasusual
.

17 David Byrne, “The NSA Is Burning Down the Web, but What if We Rebuilt a Spy-Proof Internet?,”
Guardian
, March 24, 2014.

18 On the impracticality of this law, see, for example, this rather self-serving piece by Google’s legal czar David Drummond: “We Need to Talk About the Right to Be Forgotten,”
Guardian
, July 10, 2014.

19 Roger Cohen, “The Past in Our Future,”
New York Times
, November 27, 2013.