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- what amounts to a whole hearted embrace of technological
  determinism
- specifically tailored
  to the arrival of the electronic technologies
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- - the cyberlibertarians hold that we are driven by necessities that
    emerge from the development of the new technology and from nowhere
    els
  - Alvin
    Toffler's openly determinist wave theory of history
  - now in the midst of third
    wave upheavals produced by advanced computing and telecommunications
  - cyberlibertarians
    use familiar terms of inevitable, irresistible, world-transforming
    change
  - Stewart
    Brand explains to the readers of Wired, "Technology is rapidly
    accelerating and you have to keep up."
  - There is no time to pause,
    reflect or ask for more influence in shaping these developments.
    Enormous feats of quick adaptation are required of all of us just
    to respond to the requirements the new technology casts upon us
    each day.
  - there is a wonderful irony here. For the past twenty
    years sociologists and historians have been busily at work trying
    to defeat what they saw as an unwarranted determinism in earlier
    interpretations of the interactions between culture and technology
  - "We
    should not be surprised that life, having subjugated the bulk of
    inert matter on Earth, would go on to subjugate technology, and
    bring it also under its reign of constant evolution, perpetual novelty,
    and an agenda out of our control.
  - radical individualism
  - rational self-interest
  - Ayn Rand
  - individual rights
    without responsibilities
  - attack upon altruism, social welfare
    and government intervention
  - Progress and Freedom Foundation
  - Crucial to cyberlibertarian ideology are concepts of supply-side,
    free market capitalism, the school of thought reformulated by Milton
    Friedman and the Chicago school of economics.
  - George Gilder,
    one of the writers of the Magna Carta, provides a crucial bridge.
    His best seller Wealth and Poverty helped popularize and politicize
    the ideas of the Chicago school during the early days of the Reagan
    administration.
  - In Gilder's view, the wedding of free market
    economics with the overthrow of matter by digital technology is
    a development that will liberate humankind by generating unprecedented
    levels of wealth.

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