Re: Global system "unstable by design"?Delusory diversity?Vulnerable economy?

1999-08-17 Thread M.Blackmore
That should read in the scribbling above globalism "is in fact creating a global "one company" town out of everywhere ' not isn't... doh. M

Interesting - anti-Americanism or a point?

1999-08-17 Thread M.Blackmore
Copied from a discussion... any comments anyone? Is "globalisation" really an American issue? "Will we permit the future history of the world to become the history of America? Of the American Corporation - or more precisely the American-dominated financial system? And just how short a history

Re: Interesting - anti-Americanism or a point?

1999-08-17 Thread Thomas Lunde
Thomas: Globalization is not necessarily an American issue - it is a business issue from a capitalistic viewpoint of ever expanding growth. The fact that it dovetails with the American myth of the endless frontier and is dramatized by the most powerful image machine of history as reflected in th

Ruiminations on information

1999-08-17 Thread Thomas Lunde
Thomas: Information - we are told is power, in this the new information age. But where do we get information? How does it get inside our heads? The obvious answers, education, reading, experience all seem to be true ways to get information from out there into in here. But then we have the qua

Craft guilds answer to techno-exploitation

1999-08-17 Thread M.Blackmore
Snipped off the Register (www.theregister.co.uk, worth checking out regularly): Craft guilds answer to techno-exploitation The Internet could see workers scurrying to Medieval-style guilds for protection, according to Government-appointed crystal ball gazers. The Department of Trade and I