Articles 2000
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Got Milk?
Forbes, January 09, 2000
WHEN PROTESTERS TOOK TO THE STREETS of Seattle to denounce international trade, there were no reports of milk mustaches among their many colorful costumes. But the look would have been appropriate. One of the best examples of the protesters' ideals in action can be found in the dairy case of every California supermarket.
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Sometimes the Patient Knows Best
The New York Times, January 03, 2000
LOS ANGELES -- The Internet's abundance -- of information, goods, tastes and sources of authority -- creates unparalleled opportunities for individuals to get exactly what they want. But this plenitude threatens political and cultural authorities who believe in telling individuals what they can have rather than letting them choose for themselves. It was inevitable, therefore, that the growth of the Internet would lead to complaints that its diversity undermines media standards, traditional morality and political authority. It was inevitable that the Internet would face calls for censorship.
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Surprise!
The Wall Street Journal, January 02, 2000
From the late 19th century through the middle of the 20th, futurists imagined electric lighting, but no electric guitars; supersonic jets, but no hang gliders; laser weapons, but no laser surgery or compact disks; giant computer databases, but no Palm Pilots or video games; nuclear power, but no nuclear medicine; government surveillance cameras, but no baby monitors.
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"High-Tech's Starr Report"
The consequences of a software culture war.
Reason, January 2000
On November 5, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson released the high-tech version of the Starr report: the finding of facts in the antitrust case against Microsoft. It is as angry and, in its own way, as lurid a document as Kenneth Starr's account. And it is also the product of a culture war