The Net strikes me as a medium for youthful buccaneers who have the agility to move quickly and who enjoy a certain rootlessness that keeps mistakes from totally destroying their lives. I used to babysit for Tom Holt's children. I had always thought I was wiser when it came to the Net. But the arrival of our parents is changing things. I laughed because it seemed obvious to him that I was too old for this, but it wasn't obvious to me.
Younger people are easier to exploit, more adaptive to change, have less to lose.
We probably catch on quicker to new ideas and have more energy to follow every twist and turn of the new technology. The Net could probably use more people like him. None of us think you go IPO, build your position with the money you make from that and then get out before the shit hits the fan. Yet that's what gets attention these days, and attention equals fortune, in this economy. My father says that the Net isn't really as young as the stereotypes would lead you to believe.