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:
>
> 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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> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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
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> > 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.
>
> <snip>
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> Jeff Ubois
> Disappearing Inc.
> 415 904 3338
> jeff () disappearing com