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October 1998 New Thinking

Patterns
October 26, 1998: For the last couple of years, this newsletter has risen by a steady 40 subscribers every week. It probably rises by about 60 or so new subscribers with 20 older ones unsubscribing, but I don’t have the capacity to measure this. What I can measure tells me that every week the total subscriber base rises almost religiously by 40. (It’s now at over 6,000.) More

Country hackers
October 19, 1998: Real hackers don’t hack into computers. Real hackers don’t wear anoraks and beards. Real hackers hack into countries. Real hackers wear flashy suits, drive flashy cars and work the financial markets, and most of them are probably 24-years-old. More

Commonplace Internet
October 12, 1998: As the taxi from New York’s John F. Kennedy airport was nearing our hotel, an ad for some financial website came on the radio. “Dot com, doh huh,” the taxi driver cursed. “Just another website trying to get your money,” he huffed as he abruptly switched the radio off. More

The great divide
October 05, 1998: Last week I wrote about the Clueless Society and about how in our pursuit of ‘life-long learning’ we are in danger of becoming jacks of all trades and masters of none. This week I’d like to put a question mark over the entire Information Society. Is it for real? More

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