Keith wrote: > Governments with field guns and customs posts are now giving way to huge > business and banking organizations which are rather more shaped like > world-wide spider webs than territorial blobs as they maximise their > efficiency in producing goods and services and, at the same time, also seek > the affection and support of consumers.
This development is worrying because the nation-state is the vessel of democracy. A dictatorship is "most efficient", but that comes at a price. > In truth, multinational organizations despite their size are much nearer to > the simpler power structure of the hunter-gatherer tribe than > nation-states. In due course, scientists might be able to flatten the > organisational structure of multinationals even further. The stone-age nostalgics want take (or bomb) us back to the stone-age. One big alpha-male will call the shots... The ultimate wet dream of Predators. Chris _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
