Word: capitalistically
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...author, a venture capitalist at the Carlyle Group, teaches environmental policy at Stanford Business School. He was a senior aide to President George Bush and helped frame the 1990 Clean...
...student of contemporary Spanish history could have told the World Bank that Barcelona is not a fun town for the anarchist-averse. But somebody ought to tell the bankers that their anti-capitalist nemeses may find it even easier to crash the virtual barricades of cyberspace than to break through lines of riot policemen...
...feel bad for people who have to drive to work and can't afford higher gas prices. But we have to understand that in a capitalist system, there are times when things get hard and we have to cut back. Remember sugar rations in World War II, or last Christmas when there weren't enough PlayStation2s to go around? We got through that, and we'll get through this...
Laing has also built several wired homes in the Battersea area of London, complete with "intelligent" heating and lighting, which can be controlled from a mobile phone. I speak with a 39-year-old venture capitalist who bought one of the homes four months ago. "We've been told the house can do all sorts of things, but we're still learning how to use the different features," he says. "We're not very technology-savvy. Maybe our son will know how to use all this stuff." It will be a while before I can interview...
...unclear who won. But as the cybersmoke clears, it's becoming apparent that two great powers met in combat, without politicians, commanders or bullets. Governments - communist and capitalist - were digital sitting ducks for cybersaboteurs. "When the Chinese hackers threatened our servers, I wanted to step up and say something about it," says prOphet, a twentysomething systems administrator from the Pacific Northwest. And who could stop...