OK, now I'm worried. Here's why: Lo these many years ago, in the long-gone spring of 1996, I set out to San Francisco to make my software fortune, armed with a freshly minted degree from Canada's finest technical university. The second of the interviews I'd arranged via email--itself a radical notion, then--consisted mostly of playing Doom with my potential employers, but during the little time devoted to talk, I asked them: "Do you think this whole Internet boom is getting a little overhyped?" The company's CEO looked shocked, and said: "No way. First, my grandparents in Florida have still never heard of the Internet. Second, when they do, that's when things are really going to boom." He leaned closer, with the wide, wild eyes of a true believer. "Because the Internet changes everything, for everyone." They didn't hire me. (I've never been good at first-person shooters.) Instead I wound up doing consulting work at the investment bank that led Netscape's IPO, and rode the subsequent boom several times around the world. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was a giddy crazy time a lot like now. Because, you see --Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/9cuKA-_jo_M/
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