At times, a complex argument, attempting to weave various financial, political, social and technological trends over the last century - Networks and Globalization: (via Network-Centric Advocacy)"We live in a "network society", we work in a "network economy", we interact in "social networks." Inasmuch as our lives are mediated by electronics, they are mediated by networks...But new technologies regularly create entirely new industries for new capitalists, and new technologies have created havoc for traditional monopolies as the pendulum has shifted back towards global competition. The rhetoric of entrepreneurism, contingency, self-employment, etc. has led to an economic atomization that contradicts monopoly."
Posted by gsiemens at June 1, 2005 9:21 PM