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From The Business Point Of View—not To Overstate It—intellectual Property Is Dead; Long Live Intellectual Process. Long Live Service; Long Live Performance.

What's Really Going On Here Is, This Is A Media Shift. It's Comparable To What Happened In The 1950s And The Birth Of Electronic Mass Media Back Then.this Is The Birth Of A New Kind Of Personal Media, Where, Instead Of We're All Watching One Program, We're All Watching Each Other. And The History Of Media Makes It Really Clear. Whenever We Have A Big Innovation, The First Wave Of Stuff We Do Is Pretty Crummy. The Printing Press Gave Us Pornography, Cheap Thrillers, And How-to Books. Television Gave Us Newt Minow's Vast Wasteland.

The Internet Is An Incredible Business Tool. First Of All, The Internet/the Cell Phone - The Cell Phone Is Just Another Way To Get At It - I Think Is Having A Huge Impact In Africa Most Particularly, Where It Enables People - Suddenly, They Know Crop Prices. They Can Communicate. It Makes Their Lives More Efficient.

There's Almost No Way Of Doing Importing Honestly, Because If You Do You're At Such A Disadvantage Competitively. So People Spend Huge Amounts Of Effort Getting Around Stupid Laws And Not Paying Taxes.

I've Seen Disgusting Excess In Business, And I've Seen Disgusting Excess In Washington. But At The Same Time, I've Certainly Learned That Washington Matters And That You Can't Ignore It, Especially When You Get Into Telecom.