Fortune, May 19, 2026

‘Change the World’ idealism is dying in Silicon Valley. We’ll miss it when it’s gone

During the dot-com boom of the late 1990s, I edited a newsmagazine out of San Francisco called The Industry Standard that both lived and chronicled the birth of the Internet economy. Across the city, there was an exuberance in the air, infused with an idealistic belief that the emerging Internet would empower people in untold new ways and make the world a better place. 

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