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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

My generation, dubbed Generation X after a popular novel of the same name , was typically characterized as being aimless and cynical, prematurely embittered by dead-end jobs, the generally awful state of the world, and an overall sense of cultural exhaustion. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers.

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The End Of The Road For Web Services

blogs.computerworlduk.com

Formed in the name of "preventing lock-in" mainly as a competitive action by IBM and Microsoft in the midst of unseemly political knife-play with Sun, they went on to create massively complex layered specifications for conducting transactions across the Internet.

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