Re: Maybe we _should_ ban some books II

[valis <valis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

She is something else alright.  Considering the characters of her father and
brother, as portrayed in the beautiful book "The Starship and the Canoe,"
Esther Dyson breaks new ground in the ancient nature-nurture debate.
To simply cast the issue in terms of intellectual penis envy would be
not only sexist but also dismissive of the overwhelming force that the
business culture can bring to bear even in a cozy oasis like Princeton.

                                                                   valis


Quoth Harry Cleaver:
> I had a run-in with Esther Dyson in New York a while back, at a conference
> at Columbia. She's ferociously pro-business and took nasty exception to my
> critique of the commercialization of the web and to my suggesting that
> Russia peasants were right to be wary of privatization because the history
> of private farming in capitalism was that of enclosure and people being
> forced off the land. She was offering contacts for anyone "wanting to do
> business in Russia" and was introduced as one of the most influential
> Westerners there when it comes to high-tech. A guy who runs the local
> progressive bookstore with losts of stuff on high-tech, communications etc
> commented that he thought her new book had "near-zero" informational
> content.