Re: WG: Fwd: Re: Forms of decisionism

2016-10-01 Thread Morlock Elloi
There is another interesting outcome proposed here http://www.ninaillingworth.com/2016/09/30/tales-from-the-american-dmz-its-almost-all-economics/ namely, gated communities/city-states in the midst of medieval chaos: The third solution, and if the truth be told the path I suspect at least the

Re: WG: Fwd: Re: Forms of decisionism

2016-07-29 Thread Adrian McEwen
[I'm really enjoying the discussion in this thread, thanks all!] If we do end up with a new vastly distributed factory then the question becomes how do we build a similarly distributed and decentralised system to orchestrate it? There are already many startups (3dhubs.com, WikiFactory, OpenDe

Re: WG: Fwd: Re: Forms of decisionism

2016-07-26 Thread Ludger Eversmann
The question if there is a way to kickstart effective demand again and all in all to return to the Golden 1960-1970's in terms of strong parliaments, strong labor unions and productivity gains going in high proportions to wages (and resulting demand) may be difficult to answer; allth

Re: WG: Fwd: Re: Forms of decisionism

2016-07-25 Thread Alex Foti
I totally agree you have to look at productivity distribution regimes (in this boyer-coriat supplemented perez-freeman) - in 1950-1973 it was basically productivity growth out of taylorized assemly-line operation going to wages (in the US, for Germany, Japan and other laggards it kep

Re: WG: Fwd: Re: Forms of decisionism

2016-07-24 Thread Morlock Elloi
> I would like to push forward this idea: we will develope to be an > automaton-society. Mashinery will do a more and more growing part of > everything that has to be done to create good and sustainable living > conditions for everyone. This seems to be the case - human work is getting redundant

WG: Fwd: Re: Forms of decisionism

2016-07-24 Thread Dr. Ludger Eversmann
Hi all, let me shortly introduce myself: I worked on this field of cultural and technological progress since my doctoral dissertation in Business Information Systems Engineering in 2002, with focal point on all these resulting questions when it is assumed that technological progress