Bruce Sterling published an annotated version of Laurie Garrett’s now famous private email describing the world’s elites not being very festive at Davos.
(((Y’know, folks, sometimes it’s a little disquieting to actually be living in a 1980s William Gibson novel.)))
Wee! We’ve gone from living in a Tom Clancy novel to a Bill Gibson novel. It’ll be slow progress, but next we’ll make our way through Stan Robinson’s Orange County Trilogy, and arrive at Le Guin’s Always Coming Home.
See also [ via Anil Dash ] a long piece on The Garrett Affair on LawMeme.
I’m disgusted with the flip reactions the MeFi crowd had for her. You don’t suppose the motivation for the rudeness was not that Garrett was upset, but that the letter provided more evidence of how the rest of the world doesn’t think that highly of the US.
