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Subject: <nettime> money breeds From: Faith Wilding <74447.2452@compuserve.com> Date: 2 Mar 1998 23:40:56 +0100 * * * * * Sender: owner-nettime-l@basis.Desk.nl Precedence: bulk After the posting about Wired's article on globalization and markets I couldn't resist sharing with you some excerpts from an article in the New York Times Sunday magazine, March 1--The Little Creepy Crawlers who will eat you in the night. (by Michael Lewis) "Part 1 of the Silicon Valley story was about men--all of them were men--building machines, building them cheaper, faster, smaller and better. They built them so fast and cheap that they made themselves uninteresting. The world came to take them for granted. Part 2 is what the world has not yet taken for granted. What has happened in the Valley over the past few years has the locals comparing themselves to Renaissance Florentines. It is, (as Doerr puts it), 'the single greatest legal creation of wealth in the history of the planet.' ........ And so all across Silicon Valley you find...the little creepy critters who will eat you in the night. They are mainly young men who have just discovered their inner entrepeneur and hope to grab their little billion-dollar slices of the new world. Incubators, these buildings are called." (It would seem that the recombination of money,men,machines has indeed created a new breed. Gregor Samsa move over). Faith Wilding --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de