The ascendant tribe is composed of folks from the open culture / Creative Commons world, the Linux community, folks associated with the artificial intelligence approach to computer science, the Web 2.0 people, the anticontext file sharers and remashers, and a variety of others. Their capital is Silicon Valley, but they have power bases all over the world, wherever digital culture is being created. Their favorite blogs include Boing Boing, TechCrunch and Slashdot, and their embassy in the old country is Wired.

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 168