High Wired

摘要

It's hard to escape internet mania, even if you're such a techno-klutz that your VCR is still flashing 12:00. Newspapers and magazines are slobbering all over the Internet, the international network that lets computers communicate with each other. Bill Gates, the once publicity-shy head of Microsoft, is omnipresent as he flogs his book and spews forth his vision of the future as a techie paradise. Tech stocks were up 50 percent in the past year.