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Dozens of people have helped me to hone and package my ideas on stage and in the media. Of those, I’d particularly like to thank the Foreign Policy team—Susan Glasser, Blake Hounshell, Joshua Keating, and Moises Naim—who gave me a chance to test my ideas both in their pages and in a dedicated technology blog. I have many other editors to thank: Ryan Sager at the Wall Street Journal, David Goodhart and James Crabtree at Prospect, and Michael Walzer at Dissent. Without their guidance and encouragement, it would have taken much longer to get my argument out into the open. The TED Conference, where I had the privilege to speak in 2009, helped to spread my ideas even further. I’d like to thank Chris Anderson, June Cohen, Bruno Giussani, Logan McClure, and Tom Rielly for all their assistance on this front.
My editors at PublicAffairs, Niki Papadopoulos and Lindsay Jones, have been a true delight to work with. I’d also like to thank Peter Osnos, Clive Priddle, and Susan Weinberg for taking on this project and giving me plenty of autonomy to shape its outcome. Max and John Brockman have done as superb a job as literary agents could do.
Despite the fact that they don’t fully grasp what it is that I do, my family back in Belarus have all been very supportive of my intellectual quest. Even though my current vocation hardly meets their definition of “a real job,” my parents and my sister have shown tremendous flexibility in letting me pursue the life of the mind unburdened by the grim Belarusian reality. This book would have been impossible without their support and encouragement.
Above all, I’d like to thank Aernout van Lynden, who inspired me to write, taught me how to ask challenging questions, and who, as a distinguished war correspondent, showed me what courage and decency look like. I’ve had the privilege to study under Aernout as well as to discuss politics over a glass of wine with him; his influence on my own intellectual development has been immense, and it is with utmost pleasure that I dedicate this book to him.
SAN FRANCISCO,
AUGUST 30, 2010
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CHAPTER 1
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