Word: techtopia
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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WELCOME TO TECHTOPIA...
...Techtopia--as some local boosters call the new-economy belt around Washington--isn't just another one of those business incubators that seem to have taken root in nearly every large American city in the morning of the 21st century. If software center Seattle is the new economy's brain and chipmaking Silicon Valley is its heart, then Washington is its central nervous system. Spread along, around and mostly under Techtopia's main drag, the Dulles Toll Road, are the vital electronic pathways--wires, cables and fiber-optic lines--that carry more than half of all traffic on the Internet...
...more. With so many companies hiring so many people and paying so many of them in equity, Techtopia has begun to draw, like the gravitational pull of the moon, from government and K Street out to Virginia. "There has been a fundamental psychic shift in favor of entrepreneurship," says businessman Morino, who runs a well-known incubator for start...
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