Surviving the New Economy
The dot-com boom of the late 1990s marked the coming of age of the much-heralded New Economy, an economic, technological, and social transformation that was decades in the making. A highly mobile, and in many cases highly compensated, workforce faces a multitude of new risks: Jobs are no longer secure nor insulated from global competition, […]
The Lure of Risk: Surviving and Welcoming Uncertainty in the New Economy
The new economy made risk and risk taking desirable, and this is one of its enduring social consequences. After decades of growing concern with job security, downsizing, and corporate cutbacks, the lure of risk during the dot-com boom made the lack of security seem like a choice—and a good one at that for those working […]
Associating Independents: Business Relationships and the Culture of Independence in the Dot-Com Era
One version of the history of cyberculture, albeit a simple and condensed version, tells the story of an independent media space for free cultural experimentation that was co-opted by people looking for quick and easy profits during the dot-com oom. Individual innovation and creative drive clearly shaped cyberculture and the World Wide Web since the […]