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Re: Thursday, May 30, 2002
In Skagway the metaphor for Geek Cruises is the gold rush, particularly the White Pass and Yukon Railway, one of the great engineering accomplishments in human history. Think of it in terms of a metaphor for e-commerce, with gold instead of silicon and code. This is a great example of the paradigm shift from an atomic economy to a digital economy. The White Pass Yukon Railway is the Internet of that generation: the Yukon was Silicon Valley. Everyone's grub stake was like their dot.com startup fee. You had to have 1 ton of supplies for the Canadian's to let you pass the boarder: your grub stake. Otherwise your startup venture would fail and you would starve, your domain crashed.
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