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In 2000, Cheryll Barron, a past Silicon Valley correspondent for the Economist and Business Week, wrote a much quoted essay on salon.com called 'High-tech's missionaries of sloppiness'.
A tall woman in her late thirties, with hair highlighted in alternating blond and auburn streaks, she chanted about "the twenty-first-century missionaries and tech colonizers".
Most people think of tech companies as businesses, not missionaries: Amazon just wants to sell you stuff, Facebook wants to show you advertising, and Apple wants you to buy the latest iPhone and not complain too much about iTunes.
Tech, technology.
–Tech support.
Tech Wreck.
Tech stocks.
NOT long after Joseph Peter, a tech entrepreneur turned photographer and feel-good missionary, took over the sixth floor of a triangle-shaped building at the intersection of Bleecker and Lafayette Streets in September, he hung a sign on the door.
It must never be forgotten that, with all the zeal that has become customary in the world of superstar tech firms, Facebook executives talk about their company in missionary terms.
Lanai has been ruled by the god of nightmares, a dubious Mormon missionary, a pineapple baron, a California billionaire and, now, a tech-industry magnate.
Position: missionary.
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