> The New Economy is new, but its hardly the first one to be so.
You sound like Business Week . . . or the Economist . . . or . . .
. . . The poster on MetroNorth viewed by the millions streaming from their rude-campsites in Connecticutt to the butcher-shops of lower Manhattan which simply screams, "The Internet is EVERYONE'S Business"
Phooey.
ALL those who continue to mis-understand the fundamental transformations CAUSED by every new technology -- which ALL includes *both* WIRED and anti-WIRED (i.e. nettime) -- are now singing the same tune.
"Nevermind . . . ca plus change . . . more of the same, as usual . . ."
La . . . Ti . . . DA . . .
Safe in their 19th (or 18th or 17th) century romanticisms, smug in their deep, deep conservatism, drunk on their certainty that they hold the KEY to the BIBLE CODE -- since, afterall, both are only the two sides of the same hermetic/hermeneutic KABBALISTIC "occult" knowledge-coin -- they ALL miss what has happened . . .