A Quote by James Gleick

The Internet has taken shape with startlingly little planning? The most universal and indispensable network on the planet somehow burgeoned without so muchasa boardofdirectors, never minda mergers-and- acquisitions department. There is a paradoxical lesson here for strategists. In economic terms, the great corporations are acting like socialist planners, while old- fashioned free-market capitalism blossoms at their feet.

James Gleick

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James Gleick
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Born: August 1, 1954

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Jeremy Rifkin

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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Paul Hawken

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Arundhati Roy

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