Re: <nettime> tensions within the bay area elites

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

> Even so, many people here, while disliking Google for some things,
> also recognize that some of the tech giants are making real efforts on
> environmental issues, and some of them are trying to at least consider
> how they affect local communities.  But sometimes it's hard to

Certainly any of these 'giants' that are running on (carbon!) cloud computing 
have no interest in substantive environmental 'issues' except for hypocritical 
nods at things that do not affect their bottom line or their 'owners' endless 
egomaniacal desire to expand their control and power ...

A massive corporation, as it rises, is a techno-social agglomeration that 
distorts existing flows and architectures of power. However, in our current 
case, as the pre-existing power flows are those of the 
military-industrial-academic complex, these 'newer' flows will doubtless not 
deviate from those pre-existing patterns and suddenly 'benefit' a local 
community. Is Silicon Valley really any different than the Niger Delta in this 
respect?

jh

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