Deja vu 2.0

摘要

Life is good again in Silicon Valley and its downtown San Francisco extension around South Park, where the coffee shops buzz to the dreams of a new generation of internet entrepreneurs. Venture capital is abundant. And, unlike the first batch of dotcoms, firms in the age of "Web 2.0" frequently boast both actual revenues and a plausible-sounding route to profits. Even the longer journey times in the Bay Area are being welcomed as a bullish sign; according to one breathless technology executive, the drive from Berkeley to Oracle's head office on Route 101 now typically takes 70 minutes, having plunged to 50 minutes from a mid-bubble high of 100 minutes in 2000.