{ brad brace } on Thu, 31 Jul 1997 18:15:39 +0200 (MET DST) |
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If people can get beyond passivity and insecurity, a new era of economic experimentation lies ahead -- ventures that explore new socio-cultural and economic arrangements, projects that can be encouraged by government, not managed by it. Among rich and poor, people are already exploring ideas that may change their destiny, socio-cultural invention that need not wait upon market forces. The revolutionary implication of the new technologies is about the future of work itself, about the nature of mass consumption and prosperity in industrial societies. The socio-cultural portents are as dreadful and promising as any other element of the economic transformations. The hard work of exploration is waiting to be done. -- { brad brace } <<<< bbrace@netcom.com >>>> ~finger for pgp The_12hr-ISBN-JPEG_Project ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace continuous hypermodern ftp.teleport.com/users/bbrace imagery online ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace all-the-time ftp.pacifier.com/pub/users/bbrace -- Usenet-news: alt.binaries.pictures.12hr/ a.b.p.fine-art.misc Mailing-list: listserv@netcom.com / subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg Reverse Solidus: http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html -- __ --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de