What they're saying
If someone is sufficiently motivated to kill, does it really make a difference if the fatal blueprints are acquired by mail order, in a library or on the Web?
One well-designed Web site can say more than a letter-writing campaign ever could.
Though Wall Street thinks the tiny $200 million browser/server market will explode to $4 billion in 2000, look for the market to implode and vanish. I’d be astounded if it hit even $500 million by 2000.
My personal take -- and here I am definitely not representing Salon’s views -- is that the Web is a gift-based economy, and that nobody in a capitalist culture has any clue what that means. So I think we’re going to fumble around a lot before we figure out what finally works. The old economic models clearly do not.
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