Infoworld Article: Bush official delivers wake-up call to IT industry

[Owen Byrne]

All I could think reading this article was "Mature Industry - VCs will be
looking
elsewhere from now on."

Owen

> On Thu, 2 May 2002 grlygrl201@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Bush official delivers wake-up call to IT industry
> > By Michael Vizard
> > May 02, 2002 05:43 AM
> >
> > SALT LAKE CITY -- A senior official in the U.S. Department of Commerce
> > called upon the IT industry to significantly raise its game when it
> > comes to influencing public policy in order to avert having its
> > interests subverted by more politically savvy industries such as the
> > telecommunications sector and media content providers.
>
> "We want to get 5 billion people online, not just 5 million," Bond said.
> "But that won't happen without the IT industry being engaged in public
> policy."
>
> More like 1B I'd say, the 1B that have 20$/month to get online, and much
> more importantly, have money to get online and BUY THINGS. As much as we'd
> all like to believe we're still in the days of a .edu network, the
internet
> is now pure .com with less tolerance for people that arent buying things
> every day. Heck most people aren't even net-worth enough to waste spam on,
> spending all their time trying to find drinkable water or digging in the
> dirt so rich people can have diamonds and cell phones :)
>
> - Adam L. "Duncan" Beberg
>   http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/
>   beberg@mithral.com
>