Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...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...
...these guys in it to improve the world or make money? "It's one of those situations where they coincide," Bellenson says. Sasson won't get sucked into highfalutin moral speculation, commenting only on the excitement of the intranet. America's high-tech culture has indeed combined doing well and doing good--getting rich and making the world a better place--with more success, probably, than any similar-size group of people in the history of the world. And for biotech, especially, the miracles are just beginning. If the citizens of this Other Beltway wish to believe they're doing...
...largely symbolic. Even if the government figures out a constitutional way to impose limited censorship online, these rules can apply only within the U.S.--and the Internet is international. If parents want to control what their children see, they'll probably have to resort to an old-fashioned, low-tech solution: they'll have to supervise their kids' time online...