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Mar. 4th, 2009 05:48 pm
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A correspondent referred to Esther Dyson as "the tech world's Paris Hilton."  I'm still snickering.

"A founding member of the digerati..." srsly ppl wtf

Date: 2009-03-05 07:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sunburn.livejournal.com
I don't know if people in California see it, but from outside it seems they all follow Gurus of one sort or another, as a culture, and Esther Dyson was one of them for a while. Gurus just don't seem as big elsewhere in the US, but Cali folks are always looking to the big thinker of the day, which means that people seem to get supported for thinking alone. Elsewhere in the US, leading by alleged native contact with the forces that influence or control one's subculture is the stuff of late night infomercials and endless iterations of that first self-help book.

Esther Dyson's cover or promotional standee or something for... Whateverthefuck 2.0 her book was-- it said Guru to me. So my Guru theory of California springs from Esther Dyson, actually.

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