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Dot.con John Cassidy The greatest story every sold There are two popular myths about the Internet. One is that it appeared from nowhere in the 1990s. The other is that it was a triumph of American enterprise. In fact, the Internet's history goes back to the Cold War and it was built and operated by the US government. It wasn't until the early 1990s that the private sector showed any interest. And once it did, things quickly got out of hand. John Cassidy's Dot.Con sets out to understand what happened. The speculative boom wasn't just about goggle-eyed day traders trying to get rich on the Nasdaq and goateed twenty-five-year-olds playing wannabe Bill Gates. It was also about a lone superpower that thought it had discovered the secret of eternal prosperity. It was about a group of pundits who were out to make their names by promoting the next 'big thing'. It was about investment bankers desperate to cash in on an unprecedented source of revenues. It was about a mass media willing to puff hopeless companies in return for corporate advertising. It was about economists who refused to learn the lessons of history and policy-makers eager to take credit for things they didn't properly understand. Above all, it was about ordinary investors enticed by the prospect of instant wealth. The Internet bubble reflected something about almost all of us, and what we thought about ourselves, as the twenty-first century dawned. During this initial period John Cassidy gained a reputation for consistently intelligent adn sceptical reporting on the Internet economy. His unwavering sense of the dubiousness of the boom, and his pursuit in interview of all the individuals involved from Alan Greenspan down, has proved amazingly prescient. Dot.Con brings this tumultous episode vividly to life and shows how it was that the most hairbrained and impossibly imprudent schemes could once have seemed so attractive Allen Lane UKP 9.99 Sepecial price in India UKP 6.50 Both extracts above from PenguinPost (journal of Penguin, India) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-W-E-B---S-I-T-E-=-=-= To Subscribe/Unsubscribe from GoaNet | http://www.goacom.com/goanet =================================================================== For (un)subscribing or for help, Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dont want so many e=mails? Join GoaNet-Digest instead ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Help support non-commercial projects in Goa by advertizing!! * * * * Your ad here !!
