>Anyone remember an article in Mother Jones a loooong time ago called
>"CyberSelfish?" The gist of the piece was that cybertopian whining about
>government regulation was hypocritical, given that most technological
>innovation has been the result of government R&D.
>
>The article served as the perfect weapon for waging war on that execrable
>species known as the Internet Libertarian Geek Boy, whose natural habit
>is Usenet newsgroups devoted to Hayek hagiography.
The article was written by Paulina Barsook, who was Wired's "resident hippie" in its early days. She's got a book called Cyberselfish coming out sometime soon. A fan set up a website for her at <http://www.transaction.net/people/paulina.html>.
Doug