meaningful title: "V. THE BENEFITS OF INDUSTRIAL INTERNET 1. Industrial Sector Benefits: The Power of One Percent" perfect expression of the class struggle against the 99% On 17 jan. 2013, at 17:23, Kevin Carson <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:
http://files.gereports.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ge-industrial-internet...
Interesting. Looks like another variant of greenwashed/cognitive capitalism as the basis of a new Kondratiev Wave or engine of accumulation.
It presupposes 1) integrating smart transportation/power/inventory management systems and an "internet of things" into the existing global corporate institutional framework, and 2) relying heavily on "cybersecurity" and strong IP law to enforce that institutional framework against the naturally decentralizing and deflationary tendency of network organization, in order 3) to enclose the network revolution within a hierarchical framework and preserve it as a source of rent for the existing power structure.
In short, it's an attempt at a Hail Mary pass to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat for transnational corporate capitalism, and coopt the potential of liberatory technologies into their dying system.
-- Kevin Carson Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory, Research Associate Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org
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