Or else be passed in a cloud of bytes by some other young computer genius. These Internet wizards are the fast guns of the 21st century, hacking their way through the traffic jams on the information highway to shoot out to the front, hauling in about a million dollars a minute for as long as they can hold the lead. It comes from the corporate guys who are older and more sinister. The guys who know how to merchandise the brilliant breakthroughs the young computer geniuses seem to make intuitively. The boomers in their teen years hated the idea of those guys in ties at the record companies making millions off the music of the kids in blue jeans and T-shirts.
Music is free.
Milo hates the fact that giant computer software companies are doing everything possible to control knowledge and sell it to the people as software. Tim Robbins plays Gary Winston, a Bill Gates act-alike obsessed with staying ahead of the power curve in computer software technology. His current obsession is to design, perfect and control software that would connect all electronic communications devices with all other electronic communication devices. Basically, he wants to control the one piece of knowledge the entire civilized world needs to have. Winston's solution is to buy up every computer software company, as well as every bright kid who could come up with that NURV-shattering idea.