Comment Western Wide Web (Score 1) 168
"My prediction: ...Open Societies,..a breaking down of hierarchies"
I don't think we'll see Regulators and Moderators arising any time soon (I too read Sterling's "Distraction") . This Ameri-centric article seems to miss China, India, Russia, Africa, etc. Not only are they far from a Tech Slump but they seem relatively ripe for a virtual land-grab by the same capitalists that are mooning around over the western dot.com fallout.
These 'non-westerns' have always had less of a bottleneck to contend with relative to intellectual property. They also have fewer legacy systems, many have a dire need to improve internal logistics (food, medicine, entertainment), and there lots and lots and lots of people in these places that don't want their Societies opened, their Heirarchies broken, their culture lost.
As every good capitalist knows, these "problems" are, or will be, opportunities. The graduate students will get around to addressing them, the suits will do their money thing, and the same old cycle will go on.
I don't think we'll see Regulators and Moderators arising any time soon (I too read Sterling's "Distraction") . This Ameri-centric article seems to miss China, India, Russia, Africa, etc. Not only are they far from a Tech Slump but they seem relatively ripe for a virtual land-grab by the same capitalists that are mooning around over the western dot.com fallout.
These 'non-westerns' have always had less of a bottleneck to contend with relative to intellectual property. They also have fewer legacy systems, many have a dire need to improve internal logistics (food, medicine, entertainment), and there lots and lots and lots of people in these places that don't want their Societies opened, their Heirarchies broken, their culture lost.
As every good capitalist knows, these "problems" are, or will be, opportunities. The graduate students will get around to addressing them, the suits will do their money thing, and the same old cycle will go on.
