Word: placeless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bathroom in Bhurban, Pakistan (the john being the only place where he could plug in his modem). He was logged onto the Web, fiddling with a line of code for one of his company's main computers, when the epiphany came: "This works! The Internet has happened! I'm placeless...
...placeless is where Gullichsen has always wanted to be. At 38, the wiry, snaggle-haired programmer has achieved what for many entrepreneurs would be the ultimate American Dream: a frictionless, self-propagating moneymaking scheme--in his case, selling a variant of the "domain names" that organize the Web's millions of addresses. "The great thing about my company," he says cheerfully, "is that it doesn't really exist...
...Substance of Fire pitted a father against his children for control of a New York City publishing firm. The End of the Day mocked the morality of success in tradition-bound London and parvenu Los Angeles. The new work, drawing on themes from its predecessors, depicts rootless, placeless people connected only to corporate life...