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Although the event will feature mostly for-profit "dot-com" Internet companies, it will also include online "dot-org" service organizations, and even companies that are not technology- based...
Many of these "dot-com" companies, he says, have underdeveloped management teams and might benefit from employing students with a general liberal arts educations...
...tobacco company R.J. Reynolds said an odd thing to me last week. He's about to roll his 401(k) assets into an IRA, where at last he'll have a pool of money to buy individual stocks. So what's the first thing he plans to buy? No dot bombs for him. A large chunk will go into shares of Philip Morris, his former arch nemesis and a company that Business Week has dubbed America's most reviled--quite a fall from FORTUNE's most admired list...
...have to admit that when the dot-com craze began, I too fit the mold: skeptical, skeptical, skeptical. Navigating Netscape is one thing, but programming techniques like C++ and Java make my skin crawl, much to the amusement of friends TF'ing CS50 who speak and think the language of code in the bowels of the Science Center. Steve Martin, in Father of the Bride, had my original attitude pegged exactly when he described his future son-in-law's job as an independent computer consultant: He said it was "code for 'unemployed.'" It just didn't seem possible that...
...past few months, I've begun to come around. Perhaps it's the sensory overload that has resulted from continual exposure to Internet advertising of one sort or another--dot-org this and dot-net that plastered to the insides of the T, on handouts around campus or occupying three-quarters of Superbowl commercial time last month. Or maybe it's because I've been listening to the megalomaniacal plotting of various friends who anticipate what life will be like as the next Bill Gates. According to a feature in The Crimson last week, plenty of students are leaving school...