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>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.
>
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