Re: <nettime> Jon Katz: The Myth Of The Tech Slump

[Toni Alatalo <antont@an.org>]

geert lovink wrote:

> (in this interesting essay, slashdot editor jon katz reinterprets the
> current fall of the dotcoms as a possibility to go back to basics. the 

that was interesting indeed, and a new article on Salon.com has a nice 
different perspective on this "back to basics": 
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/02/26/new_slackers/index.html

The new slackers
"What goes around comes around -- laid-off dot-commers are discovering 
anew the joys of apathy.

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*By Janelle Brown and Katharine Mieszkowski*

~Toni

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