… of all things, has, on this day of Wikipedia blackout and Google protest over SOPA, just gotten back from a New Republic and GW Law School-sponsored gathering next door to her office on politics and the internet. Machers from the FTC, the FCC, and the State Department chatted about, as the State guy said, “the implications of connectedness.” Basic idea seems to be that the gov is eager to get every last one of us connected, and to make the country rich via internet-related business activity. But there are security and intellectual property problems aplenty.
Everyone on stage was male, slender, well-suited, and articulate. Also oddly superannuated. Numerically they’re forty or fifty, but decades of precocity seem to have placed them in their late sixties. They have already become wise.
People at UD‘s table (all of us munching scones and downing tea) were surprised and amused to find that she’s an English professor. Everyone else was a journalist or a law professor. UD told them she figured she was invited because of la blogue.
January 18th, 2012 at 6:10PM
“make the country rich via internet-related business activity”
Were any of the people there actually *involved in* Internet-related business activity, or were they all journalists, law professors, and government types?
January 18th, 2012 at 6:17PM
I don’t think there were any entrepreneurs in the room, but I could be wrong. It was more about how government can help/get out of the way of biz.
January 18th, 2012 at 9:58PM
Darling!
You have arrived!
(I love “oddly superannuated.”)
January 18th, 2012 at 10:13PM
This is so cool it is disgusting!
January 18th, 2012 at 10:30PM
Michael: Yes. I’ve never seen so many expensive suits.
February 4th, 2012 at 2:02PM
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