[P2P-F] new industrial internet report from GE

Thu Jan 17 18:12:10 CET 2013

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 <free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Michel Bauwens
> <michel at p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
>> http://files.gereports.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/ge-industrial-internet-vision-paper.pdf
> 
> 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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