But last year, 'Nerd Reich' author Gil Duran declared that it was time to revive the career of Paulina Borsook, who he said 'saw it all very clearly and tried to warn us 25 years ago.' Later that fall, The New York Times reported that Borsook's 'Cyberselfish' ' first published in 2000 ' was finding new fans who want to understand why the tech industry 'lost its way.' 'That's a 12-year-old view of the world,' Borsook said, describing it as 'a kind of basket of beliefs' that's 'violently anti-regulation,' despite the fact that 'no sector of society had benefited more and suffered less from the government than these guys.' In her telling, 'even after the dot-com crash, that attitude was just there, percolating around, contaminating the aquifers. It was uncorrected, and it just spread out more and more.' Borsook has yet to publish a second book, and she said that after 'Cyberselfish' was first released, 'no one was interested in anything I might have to say about anything, tech or not...
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