The know-it-alls

By Noam Cohen

Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Free Enterprise, Biography, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computer Industry, Computer industry -- United States -- Biography, Computer industry, Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County, Calif.) -- Biography, Information technology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Libertarianism, California, biography, Information technology -- Social aspects, High technology industries, Social aspects, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Computers & information Technology

Description: Chronicles the rise of Silicon Valley as a political and intellectual force in American life and its libertarian vision of a hypercompetitive society without the protection of unions, government regulations, or social welfare programs.