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...thought of all those lawyers making all that cash from all those lawsuits is probably the only thing that could have brought together the unusual political coalition of consumer advocates, Silicon Valley executives and conservative political operatives that calls itself the Alliance to Revitalize California. The group, formed last January, includes Michael Johnson, a onetime Nader's Raider; Bill Zimmerman, a former campaign director for liberal state senator Tom Hayden; Tom Proulx, the co-founder of the software company Intuit Inc.; and Ken Khachigian, a prominent adviser to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. As Khachigian says, "If you told...
...forces have put together a diverse alliance of their own, including senior citizens (many of whom are stockholders) and civil rights advocates who fear that lower contingency fees will shut out poor clients. "These so-called tort reforms are bought and paid for by the Silicon Valley guys," says William Carrick, a consultant to the No forces. "They know that if they only put the shareholders' initiative forward, they'll get voted down. So they camouflage it with the no-fault and fee caps...
...revenge of the nerd. Outplotting, outprogramming and above all outthinking his competitors, he rose to the top of an industry that is driven by shifting alliances, rapid technological changes and the steady drumbeat of Moore's law (after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who observed that the power of silicon chips doubles every 18 months). Nobody navigates these turbulent complexities better than Gates, who understands as few do that the great lever of wealth and power in the digital age is not hardware or even software but control over the standards to which others must adhere. Today...
...become a mass art form. Democracy would flourish as millions of people logged on to the vast, bubbling, uncensored online debate. I didn't know that much of what goes on online would turn out to be "utter drivel," as disillusioned cyberpioneer Clifford Stoll now concludes in his book Silicon Snake Oil, or "flame wars" of crude and escalating insults, or, of course, cybersex with Beavis and Butt-head...
Next came Bangalore, where world-class software engineers are leading a boom that has made it Asia's fastest-growing city and India's answer to the Silicon Valley. Business leaders told us this success depended on deregulation, investment in human capital and internationalization--like the daily video conferences between some Bangalore firms and their corporate brethren in the U.S. Our visit to a slum vividly demonstrated how unevenly the benefits of growth are distributed, but India's dynamic Commerce Minister, P. Chidambaram, emphasized that his generation of Indian leaders, unlike the country's founders, believe only economic growth spurred...