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...latest home base is San Francisco -- conveniently close to Northern California's famed Silicon Valley, where a constellation of companies from Apple Computer to Xerox help create the hardware and software that make journeys into cyberspace possible. But the gravitational center of the computer universe lies a short plane ride to the north, at the Seattle-area headquarters of Microsoft, a place Jackson repeatedly visited to report this week's cover story on the largest software manufacturer and its billionaire chairman Bill Gates. Jackson considers Gates the Henry Ford of the information age, a dominant figure both respected and feared...
Headtravel comes from San Francisco, which for a decade and a half has been a hotbed of electronic music, and the group reflects the richness and diversity of San Francisco's electronic music scene. The CD also suggests San Francisco's close ties to the computer industry in the Silicon Valley: the first track is a CD-ROM file featuring hallucinogenic digital imagery...
...think it's high time people stand up and say, 'Look, you are missing nothing online,' " he says. Stoll has written a controversial new book, Silicon Snake Oil, that he describes as a "yellow warning flag" to would-be networkers. Beware, he says, that when you enter cyberspace, "you are entering a nonexistent universe ... a soluble tissue of nothing...
That's little solace for Farmer, who until last month was employed as a security specialist at Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, California. In March, when his bosses learned that he intended to unleash SATAN into the world, they gave him an ultimatum: publish if you want to perish. He published. Now he's on the market, looking...
...past three months, the DreamWorkers have journeyed to the end of the rainbow, to Seattle and Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Europe, and have found several pots of gold. They are securing a $1 billion line of credit from Chemical Bank. More stash will come through advances in such fields as pay TV (HBO), music distribution (MCA could win there), worldwide pay- and free-TV rights. The team is negotiating with the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS) to invest almost $300 million; that deal, which both sides had hoped to present to the CalPERS board last week, is delayed...