IP: Cyberselfish (RE: Washington Diary #3 -- The Facts of Life in DC (Facts of Life in SV?))

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>From: "Jeff Ubois" <jeff@ubois.com>
>To: ">To: "Farber@Cis. Upenn. Edu" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:05:43 -0700
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>Dave,
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>It sounds like life in DC has you involved in cross cultural studies.  A
>good book on that theme is Cyberselfish <www.cyberselfish.com>, which
>describes the collision between the belief systems held by the inside the
>beltway crowd and the folks in silicon valley.  The New York Times reviewed
>it last week:
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>Accusing Silicon Valley of a Heart of Coal
>By LISA GUERNSEY
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>CYBERSELFISH: A CRITICAL ROMP THROUGH THE TERRIBLY LIBERTARIAN CULTURE OF
>HIGH-TECH
>By Paulina Borsook
>(Public Affairs, $24.)
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>Paulina Borsook is fed up with Silicon Valley. But the area's instant
>millionaires and outrageously priced houses are not the reason for her
>fuming. It is the ideology behind the technology industry that really has
>her miffed. Those emotions come screeching through in Ms. Borsook's book,
>"Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of
>High-Tech."
>
>Ms. Borsook, a journalist and former contributing writer for Wired magazine,
>has written an irreverent (and sometimes incomprehensible) rant on what she
>sees as the hypocrisy of today's technology leaders. They don't like big
>government, they don't like regulation, and they wish that Uncle Sam would
>just leave them and their market-driven economy alone.
>
>Yet, as Ms. Borsook points out over and over again, government money and
>federal regulations have made Silicon Valley what it is today. Federal
>grants sponsored university research that has been translated into scores of
>Internet and computer products. Regulations have ensured that the banking
>system is "relatively fraud free." And the defense industry, don't forget,
>brought the Internet into existence in the first place.
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> > From: owner-ip-sub-1@admin.listbox.com
> > [mailto:owner-ip-sub-1@admin.listbox.com]On Behalf Of Dave Farber
> > Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2000 6:59 AM
> > To: ip-sub-1@majordomo.pobox.com
> > Subject: IP: Washington Diary #3 -- The Facts of Life in DC
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> > First some personal comments. We still both love Washington -- maybe too
> > much Going to be hard to go back in seven months. GG's prognosis is very
> > good and we are thankful for the fine medical capabilities of the DC area.
> >
> > I have now been in Washington  for five months. I feel like a veteran
> > Washingtonian -- even an inside the beltway figure.
> >
> > This is the first in a set of diary entries addressed to the
> > important  issues facing the government, public and industry in
> > cyberspace
> > and what I have a learned about the Government in general and the
> > regulatory bodies in specific.
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>Jeff Ubois
>Disappearing Inc.
>415 904 3338
>jeff@disappearing.com