The great white e-bird has landed

[Ian Brown]

The Times, Friday 4 June 1999 Opinion
By James Woodhuysen

Has the Government fallen victim to a cargo cult? Like South Sea Islanders
bowing down before a piece of engineering washed up on their shores,
ministers exhibit irrational awe in the face of information technology.
Like the Islanders, they know that this alien but exotic development is
powerful; but their confused reaction betrays a failure to understand the
technology they revere...

E-commerce has flourished without government intrusion. Now that it has
grown big enough to attract ministerial attention, the dead hand of the
State constricts the modest success which the market nurtured...

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