Eduardo Valle on Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:01:55 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> Geopolitics and Internet |
Geopolitics and internet Mark, You must have in mind some things: a) Technology is not neutral and thats no difference in Digital Technology and Internet b) Merchant Order and Cities, putting things on a historical perspective in geopolitical terms Merchant Order and Cities Bruge ---- the central rudder stock Venice ---- the caravel Antwerp ---- printing Genoa ----- accounting Amsterdam --- the fluyt London --- the steam engine Boston ---- the piston engine New York --- the electric engine Los Angeles --- the microchip c) Second about the shift of paradigm in the order city to still maintain geopolitical control XX XXI Oncle Sam Oncle Google Holywood, California , USA Silicon Valley, California, USA Simulation and Representation Industry Simulation and Programming Industry d) how the geopolitical control is related to enterprises each one dominating one field related to the geopolitical control and the digital condition Facebook ---- network control Linkedin ---- professional control Google ------ search control Apple -------- creative control Amazon ------- publishers control Microsoft ---- enterprises control ICANN --------- traffic control Intel --------- speed control Linux --------- open source control We can go on talking about telecom tech, financing and stockchanges softwares systems (FINAZISM), sattelite tech and many more related to the digital technologies and the Internet. STUPID is disconsider history and not know that history is repeating itself. And there is people that thinks they are free ... Duda Valle # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org