Paulina Borsook, a technology journalist, published "Cyberselfish" in 2000, a critical examination of Silicon Valley's libertarian culture and misogyny that sold respectably with warm reviews. Following its release, her career mysteriously collapsed: editors ceased taking her calls, publishing opportunities disappeared, and she gradually lost employment, financial security and stable housing, spending twenty-five years wondering if she had been blacklisted. Her trajectory illustrates how a writer who accurately diagnosed the tech industry's problems was marginalised rather than celebrated.

Twenty-five years later, in late 2024 and 2025, Borsook's work experienced an unexpected resurgence when technology critics shared "Cyberselfish" on social media as evidence that someone had clearly warned of the industry's trajectory during the dotcom boom. Multiple publishers competed to reissue the book, with five sending offers to her agent by December, and Tin House published a new edition in September 2025 featuring a foreword by critic Gil Durán. The New York Times profiled her as "The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley," finally validating her decades-old warnings about misogyny, the manosphere and eugenics in technology.