I was with the consultants when this was done, drawing red lines on a laptop, talking about site values.
"It's hard to imagine me here in my college town, with my laptop, talking to people who are like: 'Oh my God, you have a computer?' But in [small towns] people don't have access to the technology".
At the same time, 18 big foreign investors wrote a letter to President Vladimir Putin, condemning Mr Chubais's plans.Many westerners once saw Mr Chubais as one of their own: he read Hayek, carried a laptop, talked eloquently of the free market.
When a company employee connects to the company network, the Connected software residing on his laptop talks to the Connected server; the two compare notes, and any data updates are automatically downloaded to the laptop.
The kiddie laptop talks, too, guiding preschoolers easily through programs.
They were huddled together over a laptop talking about the deals they were going to get when I heard Tina say, "really cheap Barbie Jeeps".
Squatting on the floor made of thousands of tiny timber blocks, lying on benches, tapping away at laptops, talking together inside and outside a vast refectory, they seem to be perched like fledglings on some kind of ultra-modern rockface.
Alone with my laptop, I talk aloud to myself, wear the same clothes for days and often have no idea whether it's sunny or rainy outside.
1.24pm: I'm at the Guardian fringe and, after a bit of struggle, I've finally persuaded my laptop to talk to the internet.
