Una zeta sola, fai pure un check su Amazon. È un libro cult, una specie di guida non-turistica alle stranezze della mitica Frisco. Non so come, ma sono arrivato a una interessante recensione di NYPress. Cosa pensa l’autore Jack Boulware dello sboom delle dotcom? La risposta è secca: non è che un altro dei tanti fenomeni che sono montati e poi scoppiati in questa strana città.
This book is about what San Francisco has always been about — the chance to move here, change your name and reinvent yourself into hopefully somebody more interesting than who you used to be. In a way, the dotcom kids are a prime example of that… they all ran screaming to San Francisco and took a job staring into a computer screen for 10 hours a day, and got to go to cool parties and wear fashion eyewear and talk on cellphones and collect a closetful of clothes with little logos. But just like the beatniks and the hippies and every other culture bubble that seems to erupt here, the real juice only happens for a short time, before it’s chased down and co-opted by all the wannabes. And then the economy blew up, and everyone mourned the loss of their worthless stock options. It was very weird to watch the rise and fall. I mean, how stupid do you have to be to invest your life in a website that sells allergy medicine? The blind faith in the Internet economy was truly astounding. Billboards were sprouting up all over the city, and some of them were just baffling. You had no idea what the hell the company was about, much less if it was ever going to make money.
Cosa ne pensi? E’ stata solo pura speculazione? Un fenomeno generazionale? O un bel sogno distrutto dall’accorrere di troppi wannabes? E… cosa resta di tutto ciò?