I got the idea for this web page while trying to work on chemistry at MIT. It's an unusual phenomonea that when a person should be concentrating on one subject, ideas about other topics that are better than anything that could have been thought of with full concentration arise.

This will be my "problems with the web" page. This is quite similar to many of the discussions we heve in my seminar 6A26. The topics range from e-mail spamming to ratings for web sites to the idea of whether we need a governing body for the internet.

I grew up in San Jose, California, arguably the capital of the Silicon Valley. Most major semiconductor and computer companies have either headquarters or an office there. Because of this, I have had an unusual exposure to computers and a society that focuses on and revolves around the computer industry.

Now that I'm in Boston, I find it strange when I leaf through Newsweek and find ads for cars and BankBoston instead of AMD, Micron, HP, IBM, and Silicon Graphics. It's bizarre when more ads than not in "The Tech", the MIT newspaper, are for companies from my area trying to recruit students, and even my home town newspaper has an ad.

While everyone in Boston was following the case of the au pair Louise Woodwark, the big news in San Jose was that Silicon Graphics needed to have a major layoff.

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