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And in 1990s California,the Internet boom sparks a second gold rush.
90年代的加州 互聯網的繁榮激起了新一輪的淘金熱
Gold Rush mentality still existed over hundred years later when Silicon Valley got started.
即使在淘金熱一百年之后 當硅谷崛起之時 這一心態仍然存在
And the secret of Silicon Valley was the people were willing to take huge risks.
硅谷成功的秘訣在于人們甘愿承擔巨大的風險
In ten years,30,000 new high tech companies launch.
十年間，30萬家高新技術公司如雨后春筍般涌現
Silicon Valley creates nearly a million new jobs in the 1990s.
硅谷在20世紀90年代創造了近百萬個新工作崗位
Venture capitalists inject over $121 billion dollars into high-tech companies in 1998.
1998年 風險投資者們向高科技公司注入了超過1210億美元的資金
But not every dotcom entrepreneur makes a fortune.
但并非每一家網絡企業都能賺得盆滿缽滿
In the Silicon Valley culture,
在硅谷文化里
it's perfectly fine if you have a brilliant idea and
如果你有個好主意 但試過之后失敗了
you try it and it doesn't work out,
這完全沒有關系
people accept that, "hey, you know they don't all work."
大家都能接受 "這些主意并不都可行嘛"
But if you did good job at it,
但如果你確實做得不錯
you will probably get another chance.
你沒準兒能有別的機會
In March, 2000, the dotcom bubble bursts.
2000年3月 網絡泡沫破裂了
The world is transformed.
世界發生了巨變
While people didn't make as much money as they thought they were going to make,
盡管人們賺的錢沒有達到他們的預期
everybody got on-line.
不過卻實現了人人聯網
And the country got wired and embraced this new technology much faster
整個國家都已被網絡連通 從而非常迅速地用上這一新興技術
than it would have had there not been big boom.
若是沒有網絡繁榮的話 這就很難做到
So just as the gold rush kind of invented California,
就像淘金潮造就了加利福利亞州
I think the Internet boom days didn't make as many fortunes
我認為網絡的繁榮 雖然并沒有創造像當年那么多的財富
but they did wire the whole country in a really transformative way.
但是它確實以一種全新的方式把整個國家連在了一起
But as the information superhighway comes of age,
但是在信息高速公路逐漸成熟之際
America wakes up to a new and terrifying friend.
美國一覺醒來 發現又面臨著新的敵手
