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...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...
...then, this tiny company is a living celebration of American diversity--and immigration, an increasingly unfashionable cause back in Washington. But in another way, all these folks share a culture to which most Americans, and nearly everyone in D.C., are strangers. Islands of this high-tech entrepreneurial culture dapple the country. But they reach critical mass in and around San Francisco...
...incomprehension in Washington and the rest of the country about the world of high tech is partly the techies' own fault. What, for example, do these companies do exactly? Well, Pangea has developed some kind of software that is used to sort through all the information that's coming out about human genes, in order to speed up the development of new drugs. Or something. "Industrial Strength Bioinformatics" is the company's slogan. Its product, styled GeneWorld 2.0, "gives you the industrial-strength capacity you need when sequence data production exceeds analytical throughput." (Don't you hate it when that...
...spends any time in Washington. Sasson has been there twice as a tourist and once on business when he worked for Bechtel. "It reminded me of Rome," he says, meaning the pomp and not the classical beauty of its architecture. He adds that it "has no relevance to high-tech industries." Bellenson has been there a few times for conferences and "sensed it's a closed environment...I was struck by how oblivious they are to the conditions of the poor, though they work with the poorest of the country right nearby." Sasson describes himself firmly and comfortably...
Foreign tongues on the net? Nyet. English rules. No wonder French linguistic gendarmes tried to put an halte! on Georgia Tech's English-only Website concerning its campus in Lorraine. So just how prevalent is English in cyberspace...