Für eine Netbase-Veranstaltung im Oktober muss ich gerade Flüge besorgen und da dachte ich mir, schau ich doch mal, was die TeilnehmerInnen eigentlich so treiben. Paulina Borsook aus San Francisco, die das Buch Cyberselfish geschrieben hat, sagt im Interview mit Independent (gefunden auf ihrer Website), einige ganz interessante Dinge:

Nevertheless, Borsook points a few fingers. She is irritated nigh unto rage that today's geeks have no understanding of the fact that "everything came out of government funding and everything was invented 20 years ago. We have modems because some government department gave AT&T some money for an early warning nuclear thing. "Let's not even talk about the World Wide Web. Why did Tim Berners Lee invent this? Because he was wanting to support physicists at Cern. Where did Marc Andreeson come from? The National Supercomputer Center. It's just so irritating to have these people act as though they've done it all on their own. The microprocessor industry would not even have existed without the government."

Was ich mich dabei bloß frage: ist das auch eine Kritik am ursprünglichen Verwendungsgedanken für diese neuen Technologien oder nur am grenzenlos liberalen Entrepreneurgedanken der Geeks? Mal lesen, das Buch.