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Fri 03 Mar 2009Technology's Wild West still holds promise
WIRED: Projects such as the internet have their roots in what many would call foolhardy idealism, yet they have ended up driving economies
I’M SITTING in the middle of the Arizona desert, looking over fields of saguaro, those towering and multi-armed cactus iconic of the Wild West. A few miles away, at Old Tucson Studios, fake cowboys re-enact scenes from the the United States’ past that gave us its reputation for do-or-die individualism.
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