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To: Ed Forrest who wrote (52969)	5/13/2001 4:57:32 PM
From: Ed Forrest	Respond to of 77398

Of course, people are still using computers. And somebody will buy all the machines in the picture. What's gone is the sense that the people who are using the stuff are on the cutting edge of history and everyone else is road kill. Some of the Internet geeks really did believe this, and because they believed it, and were making squazillions of dollars believing it, the rest of us paid attention. Palo Alto and Redmond seemed like places where history was made, the epicenters of a decade's self-consciousness, the way Woodstock was in the 60's and Wall Street was in the 80's. Now we're at one of those pivot moments, when one fascination pales and the next object of our entrancement and contempt hasn't come into view. What will it be? Biotech? Religion? Only Madonna knows for sure. In the meantime, I find myself somehow resenting the unceremonious way we say goodbye to idealistic illusions. The mere fact that the dreams don't come true doesn't mean that it's all right to go ahead and cannibalize them for spare parts. We should burn them, Viking style, in a great funeral pyre. A bonfire of the buzz. Let's take this end-of-decade moment to celebrate the American ability to come up with an endless series of impossible dreams. Message 15793785