Rebellious geeks are too often thought to be either maladjusted destructive male youths in basements, or the geeks selling revolutions to our lives: the model of Steve Jobs of Apple or Sergey Brin of Google.
But rebel geeks have also, always, been those who rebel against the seemingly unending turning of our lives into information by rich corporations or intrusive governments. In “Give Us Back Our Data”, an episode from the new excellent documentary series “Rebel Geeks”, Evgeny Morozov sums up the problems these geeks attack.
“Silicon Valley has usurped our imagination.”
