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[...]... And then came the second response, ‘‘But still, I would like to know the answer ’’ The dangers and wonders of curious minds I would like to thank above all these participants who had to give so much of their time to learn about the Internet, to gather the facts, and then to write their interpretations of what they observed We thank as well the participation of many people who helped us along the. .. a global economyThe Two Explosions of theInternetTheInternet technologies evolved far more steadily and incrementally than their economic and commercial exploitation One date by which to mark the explosion of theInternet onto the business and cultural scene is 1994, the year an easy-to-use Internet browser with secured transactions called Netscape was launched From this date to 2000, the number... Los Altos The cultural significance of theInternet went far beyond business culture TheInternet brought new worlds to internauts People entered chat rooms, tried out new identities, and encountered dialogues outside their local lives The quip that on theInternet no one knows you are a dog summarized the potential for anonymous exploration of new selves 2 TheInterneteconomy promised a new economy. .. crest new firm creation and the transformation of existing companies that permanently influenced the trajectories of national economies around the world TheInternet as a Cultural Event TheInternet o¤ered the possibility for the delivery of new services Some of these services were the provision of information Some promised to rationalize the supply chains of entire industries Others o¤ered opportunities... Intentionally Left Blank 1 Introduction: TheInternet Has Borders Bruce Kogut Technologies di¤use rapidly in the modern global economy Certainly, the di¤usion of the technologies that make up theInternet occurred with great rapidity over the past two decades This is hardly surprising given the global web of ties among people, firms, and institutions Many of theInternet s key components were created... exploration, and the introduction of new products and services The entry of new firms into these new economic spaces shook the strategies and fates of industrial and financial giants In this regard, theInternet poses a cognitive reframing of work and entrepreneurship that vies with traditional job definitions and aspirations of labor market participants TheInterneteconomy is also the digital economyThe content... chapter, these networks still reveal the importance of place and personal relationships Here lie the initial questions of our study Does the rapidity by which theInterneteconomy exploded, once and then again, in many countries mean that borders are inconsequential? Is the evidence that new firms rose in Germany, France, Sweden, and many other countries contrary to the traditional logic of their economic... is that the global Internet did pierce borders, but with e¤ects depending upon the national specificities TheInternet of the 1990s did not represent a major new technological trajectory, for the basic technologies were already known TheInternet instead represented a revolutionary and cultural challenge to the traditional models by which the relevant competence should be organized to explore the new... at the destination From this engineering perspective, theInternet consists of several layers, illustrated in figure 1.1 These technological layers have experienced dramatic increases in functionality, with technological progress in one layer driving the complementary engine of change in other layers These technologies provide the enabling capabilities that constitute theInternet Figure 1.1 The Internet. .. highlight the importance of national and global communities to the evolution of Internet technology (For a more complete history, see hhttp:/ /www.isoc.org /Internet- historyi and Abbate 1999.) The story of the creation of theInternet is unmistakably about the role of the U.S government and a few remarkable people But it is also about the creation of a computer science, and sometimes hacker, community, and the . time to learn about
the Internet, to gather the facts, and then to write their interpretations of
what they observed.
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