That's because it just so happens that the guy who designed the Jaguar F-Type concept car ("Gorgeous from every angle, " gushed the March issue of Automobile) is my oddball brother-in-law Keith Helfet.

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Where Davidow has gone since we talked is to locating Internet-type connectivity in the context of other reinforcing feedback loops, including the growth of the automobile, the collapse of East Germany, and the career of Head-On Joe Connolly, who made a career of staging train wrecks before the enthusiastic masses.

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