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Game over: with the collapse of the new economy complete, yesterday's dot-commers are only now beginning to understand the odds. (Gazette).

American Prospect, The,  September, 2002  by Neff, Gina

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"HOW COULD WE HAVE BEEN so stupid?" In the old new economy, the woman who asked this question was a heroine of sorts, one of those feisty young dot-commers with stock options, mobility and sought-after skills. But the "new" is over now, those great jobs have vanished and many such heroes are asking themselves the same thing.

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After all, the technology industry was considered largely immune from the "creative destruction" that was destroying, creatively, the old economy. Sure, a company here or there might fail, but high-tech was going to work out ...

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