McLuhan's New World

Come with me back to the 1990s::::::and the Silicon Valley::::::and the Internet euphoria::::::and the two www.saintly-souls who first prophesied the coming of the World Wide Web::::::

It was November of 1999, and I was in Palo Alto, California, the Silicon Valley’s de facto capital. Right here in the Valley the computer industry had produced 14 new billionaires in the preceding 12 months. I saw billionaires every morning at breakfast. Every morning; the Valley’s power breakfast scene was a restaurant called Il Fornaio, which happened to be on the ground floor of my hotel, the Garden Court. I loved the show. You couldn’t have kept me away.

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