It has nothing to do with 'digital' and everything to do with
productivity and near-zero friction distribution.
No one needs 95% of 'producers' in the culture industry. The 5%
are giving us all we need (and only tiny fraction of these 5% are
employed by MSM - the rest are independents catering
On 05/15/2013 05:40 PM, newme...@aol.com wrote:
Is there any body of research that does this -- with or without
McLuhan?
Manuel Castells immediately springs to mind, who not only wrote a book
called Internet Galaxy (by far not his best, though), but premises
his entire analysis on the
Felix:
Thanks -- I was hoping (okay, anticipating) that you would reply! g
1) Castels: Manuel Castells immediately springs to mind -- of course
he does and I've read your excellent review/analysis of his work. How
has he been received among his peers? I've talked with a few of them
and they
Mark - and others,
Whatever the name of the (class) beast, or the nature of the (digital)
technology, my only interest is to have the vast majority of the people
have a decent, interesting, enjoyable, and healthy life - from birth to
death. The present dispensation does not provide for that.
Mark writes:
But, before you roll up your sleeves, if you want to have any useful
ideas on the structure of labor (and leisure and consumption) then
you must begin with a CRASH effort to understand the impact of
*digital* technology on the economy.
You could also begin with a crash course on
Jon:
As i said it appears to me that people have been struggling
with this since the 90s and i see no sign of it stopping.
Thanks! You are certainly correct that the various professions have
circled their own wagons and not stepped up to the challenge of understanding
the effects of
But isn't it all just a bit Luddite? What kind of work were all those Kodak
employees doing? Putting transparencies in plastic boxes to post to the
owners. It's just a rearrangement of social labour, like when Manchester
Actually a substantial chunk of their work was related to the
On 13/05/13 18:11, Keith Hart wrote:
Thanks for posting this. It's a great interview and I downloaded the book
onto my Kindle. Lanier's ideas about the middle class as an artificial
product of modernity are interesting
That sounds similar to Paul Graham's interesting opinions about unions -
I'm sorry, I should have given the source for my observation about the
return of high-wage and low-wage jobs in the US, compared to the
devastating loss of mid-wage jobs. It is here:
http://bigstory.ap.org/interactive/interactive-great-reset
It's an amazing little animated graph, dated 2013.
Brian:
Let's get to work on this.
Great idea!
But, before you roll up your sleeves, if you want to have any useful ideas
on the structure of labor (and leisure and consumption) then you must
begin with a CRASH effort to understand the impact of *digital* technology on
the economy.
The middle class is of course a construct. It seems to me what is happening in
the disappearance of that class is that we simply can no longer pretend it has
an existence beyond a political will to work with this construct. And did the
idea of the middle class not result from a desire to make a
On 05/13/2013 07:11 PM, Keith Hart wrote:
Lanier's ideas about the middle class as an artificial product of
modernity are interesting and of course I loved all that stuff about the
digital revolution generating a shift from formal to informal economy.
The middle classes dependent on a
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