Re: <nettime> Europe envys America

[Kurt Ralske <kranning@miau-miau.com>]

>> America is a great nation and it needs and treats very well bright,
>> energetic young people!!! It's the country of Freedom, of Openness, of >Free
>> Speech, of Brightness, of Geniality, of Multiculturalism, of Walt Whitman,
>> Edgar Allan Poe, Thoreau, Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey, Jack Kerouac, Lou
>> Reed, Andy Warhol, John Kennedy, Jimi Hendrix, Marshall McLuhan, Steve Jobs
>> and Steve Wozniak, Brian Wilson, Marvin Gaye, David Lynch, Robert de Niro,
>> Bob Dylan, Richard Stallman, Vannevar Bush, Douglas Engelbart, J.R.
>> Licklider, Ted Nelson, Tim Berners-Lee and many more.

<ahem>, unless i'm mistaken:

Marshall McLuhan : Canadian
Tim Berners-Lee : British

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