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f!nalment - etvaz kop! pazte m9nd akt!v!t! on 01 `art-teor!e` [!.e. neu + !mprovd korporat fasc!zt] forum eusocial.com -> superb source for male fascist antibodies. pre.konssept!Øn meeTz ver!f1kat!Øn. - Netochka Nezvanova f3.MASCHIN3NKUNST @www.freedemo.org 17.hzV.tRL.478 e | | +---------- | | < \\----------------+ | n2t | > e >Last week in Amsterdam there was a conference that critiqued the so-called new >economy. Tulipomania DotCom <http://www.balie.nl/tulipomania> brought together >activists, economists, artists, media critics, and a few venture capitalists. > >I gave a talk on the problems we face here in Silicon Valley (where I live) and >which are aggravated by the superheated flow of money and technology into a >rather small piece of land. I will have a full report on the conference later, >but, as I said at the Global Knowledge meeting in Kuala Lumpur, the problems of >Silicon Valley can affect other places, especially those striving to become >technology oases and magnets for investment and dotcom startups. > >Our newspaper, The San Jose Mercury News, <http://www.sjmercury.com/> is one of >the best for covering technology, but they also have many items about the side >effects and the down side of what is happening here. > >In today's paper (6/9) Tracy Seipel's column "The Swing Shift" writes about the >appearance at the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Ted Turner (who donated $1 Billion >to the United Nations) and John Chambers, the CEO of Cisco. As usual, Chambers >was pushing Cisco and about their networking academies which are teaching people >around the world to configure Cisco routers. > >"Then came Turner, a.k.a Mr. Zinger. 'Half of the people in the world don't have >electricity. How are you going to get a computer in their hands? Forget about >the digital divide.' ...The room became tense--was Turner criticizing Chambers >and other tech do-gooders in the room? Didn't he know that the Internet was the >great leveler, the second Industrial Revolution in the making? ('I though we >were the second Industrial Revolution when we started CNN 20 years ago.' Turner >said). > >"Chambers was there to promote...Turner was there to provoke. And boy did he. >Turner railed against giving to 'rich people's causes,' such as the symphony or >Harvard, and the tech industry took a hit too. 'I think it's a little >self-serving of the computer industry to give away computers.' Turner said. Not >unlike the drug dealer giving you 'the first hit on the house.' > >Steve Cisler (I used to give away computers for Apple's research group.) >4415 Tilbury Drive, San Jose, CA 95130 >cisler@pobox.com >http://home.inreach.com/cisler >(408) 379 9076 >"There are some places where the road keeps going." >-Bud Parker. > > > >_______________________________________________ >Nettime-bold mailing list >Nettime-bold@nettime.org >http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold