![]() ![]() Let’s therefor take back the some of the elements of the dotcom ideology and how they viewed upon during the Internet’s first recession of 2001-2002. Only few years after the bubble, the dotcom stories are about to fade away for good. Remarkably, in all these works the ideological origins of the dotcom model remain unquestioned, no matter how different the background of the authors may be. The dedication to network technologies and trust in commercial applications is overwhelming. What is striking in all these different narratives is the desire to capture the excitement, the drive to «get there first», and the strong belief in a slavery-type (yet playful) hard work. From there I will look into a few broader analyses, Michael Lewis’ The Future Just Happened and Brenda Laurel’s Utopian Entrepreneur, reflecting upon her vanished girls games Purple Moon venture. After having discussed Castells’ ambivalent take on the New Economy I will browse through David Kuo’s Dot.Bomb (about the e-tailer Value America) and Boo Hoo, the story of boo.com’s founder Ernst Malmsten. In 2001 Castells published The Internet Galaxy, an overview of recent Internet research from a social science perspective. As a theoretical entrée I will use concepts of Manuel Castells, the Berkeley geographer and author of the widely acclaimed Network Society trilogy. If 2000 was the year of the NASDAQ crash inevitably 2001 was followed by pitiful dotcom biographies. The accounts and analyses were written in the immediate aftermath of the tech wreck. In this chapter I will focus on a few dotcom histories, as told by true believers who were in the eye of the storm. ![]() Texte original en anglais de art107, rub22
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