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...analogy is not perfect. Snow described two cultures that were mutually suspicious or even hostile. Today the suspicion and hostility mainly run only one way. Silicon Valley shares the contempt of Americans generally for Washington and sometimes imagines that Washington is hostile to it. But in fact the dominant attitude in Washington about the high-tech world is one of swooning admiration. Nevertheless, swoon and scorn alike are based on astonishing ignorance inside each Beltway about the life and concerns of the other...
...four decades ago. But, with some fiddling, the concept still applies. For literary intellectuals, substitute "Washington," in the metaphorical sense of the world of public affairs that has, to some extent, replaced literary intellectual life as a focus of ambition and status for brainy nonscientists. For science itself, substitute "Silicon Valley," in the metaphorical sense of the entrepreneurial world that is steadily encroaching on the labs and clinics of scientific academia. And the "two cultures" problem remains...
...liberal"--which itself distinguishes him from people in Washington these days--but says he is not politically active, "beyond voting." Bellenson is "not interested in conventional politics" and would like "a politics that would facilitate social progress." He says these progressive sentiments make him "an aberration" in Silicon Valley, but they lead, in any event, to the same result as Sasson's lack of interest: no involvement in electoral politics. Bellenson also feels, for all his radical sentiments, that government has nothing to contribute to the development of his business, which is his real passion, and can only...
Irritating though such glib sentiments might be to a vanquished rival--and there are many in Silicon Valley who would just love to see something nasty happen to Microsoft and Intel, if only for the change of pace--such bluster hardly constitutes proof of illegal behavior. "I don't think there's any question that the suit is a negotiating ploy," says Mercury Research analyst Mike Feibus. The current industry wisdom is that Digital's aim is to gain an out-of-court settlement that would give it a foothold in Intel's fortunes--either a cross-licensing agreement granting...
...crazy enough to go cold turkey, say U.S. intelligence officials. The FBI, which is investigating the Mega case, has grumbled privately that Israeli espionage agents routinely prowl California's Silicon Valley and Boston's Route 128 corridor for high-tech secrets. "The Israelis were bumping into very nearly every one of our friends and allies doing the same thing," says a former FBI counterintelligence agent. In a report last year to the Senate Intelligence Committee, the CIA identified Israel as one of six foreign countries with "a government-directed or -orchestrated clandestine effort to collect U.S. economic secrets." Senior intelligence...