Newt's New Gyberworld

摘要

Celia's, a mexican restaurant in Palo Alto, Calif., is usually packed with the who's who of Silicon Valley: young dot-comers in black, venture capitalists and Nobel Prize winners in jeans. On a recent evening Chelsea Clinton is eating downstairs with friends from nearby Stanford. Upstairs, by coincidence, is another refugee from official Washington. Over a plateful of fajitas, Newt Gingrich is lecturing a roomful of top scientists abouthis ideas for revolutionizing American education. They listen appreciatively to proposals that might have a Washington audience rolling their eyes—like giving a computer to every 4-year-old and rewarding top students with cash bonuses. In Silicon Valley, the more far-reaching—even outlandish—the idea, the better.