[ih] New Republic Article - "How We Misremember the Internet’s Origins"

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Fri Nov 1 12:26:51 PDT 2019


well, that sure clears things up.....
:-/
v


On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 3:24 PM Darius Kazemi <darius.kazemi at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Brian, quick response inline below--
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 1, 2019, 7:15 PM Brian E Carpenter <
> brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> "But when the publicly funded open protocols and infrastructure built by
> ARPANET entered the Californian crucible of nascent ex-hippie
> neoliberalism, the windows of possibility narrow."
>
> Um, meaningless drivel from someone with a liberal arts degree?
>
> Neoliberalism didn't *actually* arise from hippiedom;
>
>
> I believe you are parsing her sentence wrong. She's not saying "all
> neoliberalism arose from hippies" but rather is referring to a particular
> strain of "ex-hippie neoliberalism". The ex-hippie part is a modifier to
> make it different from garden variety neoliberalism.
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