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...valley, a still vague attempt to spark off a Malaysian biotechnology industry. Both E-village and Bio-valley are part of the Prime Minister's Multimedia Super Corridor, a hugely ambitious?and expensive?attempt to create an Asian Silicon Valley that is floundering in the wake of the dotcom crash and the U.S. recession...
After the dotcom crash, the appetite for technological upheaval is slim. And that's just as well: most really big technologies, from the railroad to electricity, have made their impact gradually. "I don't think you ever sell a big paradigm shift," Meyer says. "It happens one application at a time...
...production, which frames the action in a series of art installations). It's the tale of Loren, an art dealer who must sell a Jackson Pollock painting for $20 million or face a $2 million debt herself. As she soft-sells and schmoozes three interested parties, two of them - dotcom millionaires Kel and Mindy and business magus Manny - reveal desires for more than the painting. While the central point - that the Pollock is treated by everybody as merely a commodity to be traded, for money or sex or both ("You know what TIME magazine called Pollock?" sneers Manny. "Jack...
...styled stock-market watchdog, saw Boto as a buy. On his website (webb-site.com), Webb recommended the stock because of its solid growth prospects?revenue grew 19% last year?and for its conservative managment team that, said Webb, "had not indulged in property or stock-market speculation, nor tried to dotcom itself...
Today we chuckle at dotcom millionaires gone bust, even as we become ever more attached to our laptops and favorite websites. But in the early days of COMPUTERS, TIME was simply trying to introduce readers to the new gizmos--and to the strange people who had mastered them...