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IP: Saying Goodbye, and Good Riddance to Silicon Valley
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 08:10:17 -0500
January 17, 1999 Saying Goodbye, and Good Riddance to Silicon Valley By JOHN MARKOFF [] MENLO PARK, Calif. -- Until last year, Geoff Goodfellow was a Silicon Valley Wunderkind, a pioneer in the field of wireless electronic mail. Now, as a resident of the Czech Republic, he wakes up each day and gazes from the balcony of his loft over a jumble of rooftops at the Prague Castle on a nearby hill. Half a world away from Silicon Valley, Goodfellow has become a member of a small fraternity of engineers and entrepreneurs who have dropped out and walked away from ground zero of the Internet economy. Goodfellow's departure is an exception to the popular notion that working in Silicon Valley, the world's high-technology capital, is its own reward. He left with a darker vision of life there and a disdain for the corrosive human effect of the region's workaholic, dollar-obsessed culture. http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/biztech/articles/17drop.html
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