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In the previous generation of entrepreneurship, all the creativity and talent was in the garage. That’s where the elephant organisations of today were conceived and birthed. In the garage. With all its attendant tools and toolsets and minds and mindsets, never straying far from their DNA of Taylor and Coase and McLuhan.

It’s different for Generation M. This time the creativity and talent has been in the bedroom, not the garage. The DNA is different. Today’s entrepreneurs have no idea who Taylor was, don’t care who Coase was, and don’t like what McLuhan stood for.

And much as I’d like them to, they don’t know who Jerry Garcia was, haven’t heard of Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond or even Linus Torvalds, but they know Linux. They know Skype. They know Open. They know Convenient. They know Simple. And they know Stupid.

They know.

Surrupiado do Confused of Calcuta.

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Minha geração não teve garagens. Não aquela que nasceu e vive em solo tupiniquim. Mas ela viveu na cola de quem fez da garagem um meio de vida: Jobs, Wozniak, Gates, Allen, HP's e vários outros. Minha geração comprou livros como "Build your own Garage" e nunca as construiu.

Mas a Geração M tupiniquim é muito parecida com aquela descrita pelo JP (Confused). Conseqüência da Internet, sem dúvida. Desconfio que com o tanto que eles sabem, poderão fazer muito mais pela TI de Pindorama do que minha geração fez. Mais e melhor. Desconfio torcendo.