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Law writes,"When I look back at those crazy <strong>time</strong>s they have a dreamlike, unreal quality. Themeetings in America were in weird <strong>and</strong> wonderful places. Grown men would start cryingas a v<strong>is</strong>ion of the future <strong>to</strong>uched a previously unexposed nerve. But almost two years afterit was d<strong>is</strong>b<strong>and</strong>ed I real<strong>is</strong>ed what a m<strong>is</strong><strong>take</strong> that kind of 'Task Force' mentality <strong>is</strong>. We werecreating a micro-culture for ourselves <strong>and</strong> were not changing the company." (Law, 2001p.22)Naugh<strong>to</strong>n writes,"Th<strong>is</strong> <strong>is</strong> an intensely personal work which makes no claims <strong>to</strong> provide a definitive accoun<strong>to</strong>f the Net's evolution. Rather it picks out aspects of the s<strong>to</strong>ry which seem <strong>to</strong> me <strong>to</strong> besignificant, <strong>and</strong> tries <strong>to</strong> explain why. And if it reads like a passionate work, then that <strong>is</strong>because I feel passionately about its subject." (Naugh<strong>to</strong>n, 2000 p.ix)Friedman writes,"As I came <strong>to</strong> th<strong>is</strong> realization, I was filled with both excitement <strong>and</strong> dread. The journal<strong>is</strong>tin me was excited at having found a framework <strong>to</strong> better underst<strong>and</strong> the morning headlines<strong>and</strong> <strong>to</strong> explain what was happening in the world <strong>to</strong>day." (Friedman, 2006 p. 8)Echoes of each of these quotations appear in all the au<strong>to</strong>biographic writing that compr<strong>is</strong>es theAppendices 1-6 of th<strong>is</strong> study. They would remain however descriptive accounts rather thananalytical objects if the method of th<strong>is</strong> study was only au<strong>to</strong>biographic.152Simon Hughes Ph.D. Thes<strong>is</strong> (Oc<strong>to</strong>ber 2012)

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