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At a time when Wall Street firms are being punished for misleading investors about dot-com stocks during the bubble, it’ s all too easy to confuse financial excitement with technological reality. Many people are quick to dismiss any talk of an "Internet revolution" as so such’ 90s chatter. (47) There is a world of difference between crazy evaluations and serious technology, between Internet stocks and the Net itself. While investors have been complaining about their fate, chief executives have been busy embracing the Net. It’ s time to get over the bubble talk and get real about technology’ s promise.
Or risk falling behind. The strong upturn in profits last quarter during a period of weak economic growth is proof to the productivity—enhancing power of the Net. Through boom, bust and recovery, annual productivity growth has powered along at around 2.5%. Without it, companies would have been forced to cut payrolls even

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At a time when Wall Street firms are being punished for misleading investors about dot-com stocks during the bubble, it’ s all too easy to confuse financial excitement with technological reality. Many people are quick to dismiss any talk of an "Internet revolution" as so such’ 90s chatter. (47) There is a world of difference between crazy evaluations and serious technology, between Internet stocks and the Net itself. While investors have been complaining about their fate, chief executives have been busy embracing the Net. It’ s time to get over the bubble talk and get real about technology’ s promise.
Or risk falling behind. The strong upturn in profits last quarter during a period of weak economic growth is proof to the productivity—enhancing power of the Net. Through boom, bust and recovery, annual productivity growth has powered along at around 2.5%. Without it, companies would have been forced to cut payrolls even

[简答题]At a time when the public is being assaulted with unsolicited e-mail ads, California is about to launch the toughest counterattack in the nation. A law that goes into effect on Jan. 1 allows computer users in the state to refuse unwanted solicitations en masse and sue spammers who violate their wishes for as much as ＄1 million.
Those potent weapons for deflecting pitches that offer everything from bigger body parts to lower mortgage rates have attracted the ire of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and mass marketers. Fearing the law will curtail advertising on the Internet, they are pushing for a far weaker national solution that would undercut the tough tactics in California and other states that are going the same route. But such self-interest is hardly enlightened. The growing flood of messages not only annoys PC users, it also slows the transmission of wanted e-mail and forces businesses to spend billions to combat spam.
In fact, a survey released Oct. 22 suggests the prol

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