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Entry Posted October 16, 2002

http://newyorker.com/critics/books/?021014crbo_books Fantastic Columbus biography, provides interesting additional similarities between internet pioneers and Columbus: Columbus was an incorrigible optimist; to his investors he willfully (and wildly) underestimated the difficulty of the voyage (he reported that the estimated distance from the Canary Islands to Japan was a manageable twenty-seven hundred miles—it is in fact over thirteen thousand); he overestimated his own technical abilities. 14:06

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