NYT: Techies Now Respect Government

[Lucky Green]

Tim wrote:
> On Sunday, May 26, 2002, at 10:07  AM, John Young wrote:
> 
> > Thomas Friedman in the New York Times today:
> >
> >
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/26/opinion/26FRIE.html
> >
> > Webbed, Wired and Worried, May 26, 2002
> > ....
> 
> > pose these questions to techies. I found at least some of their 
> > libertarian, technology-will-solve-everything cockiness was gone. I 
> > found a much keener awareness that the unique web of technologies 
> > Silicon Valley was building before 9/11 -- from the Internet to 
> > powerful encryption software -- can be incredible force multipliers 
> > for individuals and small groups to do both good and evil.
> 
> Well, "duh." As an analyst of high tech, Friedman is a pretty good 
> analyst of the Arab-Israeli conflict. His conclusions about 
> the views of 
> Silicon Valley are facile and simplistic.

I didn't really interpret Friedman's article to indicate that he himself
has so much come to see technology in a different light following 9/11,
but rather that he noticed that many in the Valley have begun to see
technology in a different light, being now more receptive and
susceptible to governmental suggestions to consider including the Big
Brother Inside.

In as far as Friedman's post is reporting on a change in the mindset of
the technology providers, his article might be represent more of a
statement of fact than an opinion.

Just a thought,
--Lucky