Russell C. wrote:
> Quote:Wal-Mart is now the world's biggest > corporation, having passed > ExxonMobil for the top slot... <snip> > Setting aside for a moment all the issues raised by > this report, it > makes one wonder a bit about the future. Will > government at some point > become somewhat redundant or secondary in choosing > the allocation of a > nation's resources, given the way some of the > corporations now control > use of specific sectors of the earth's resources. > Will a world > government actually take the form of a mega-merger > in boardrooms?
Debbi replied:
IIRC, that is what 'has happened' in Joan D. Vinge's _Psiteen_ (sp?) series (protagonist "Cat").
Not to mention most cyberpunk stories, where governments are typically irrelevant in the face of the big multinational corporation. The first book I read with that as part of the background was the novelization of Alien (which I read just before I saw the movie at the drive-in with my parents -- I would have been about 10 at the time), but I'm sure it goes back a lot farther than that.
Reggie Bautista
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