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Post by jasonward on Oct 6, 2018 12:56:37 GMT
I honestly think that with globalisation and the Information Age we're moving away from the traditional dichotomies (capitalism vs. communism) towards something very different. I'm noticing that public patronage is now very big as a means of supporting artists and their projects online. Platforms such as Patreon, Twitch, Kickstarter, Indiegogo and so on; are pretty much synonymous with online content. So Communism as it has been known? Eh, likely not. Communities, though? I think there's a lot going on with communities at the moment. We're right in the middle of a new Industrial Revolution that's reshaping our ideologies with the technology we use. I too think the 'isms, the systems of governance and control that have existed till now are under a period of rapid transformation. The movements you refer to are for me but the tip of the iceberg, with open source and creative commons having already transformed the IT industry, turning business models on their heads and in recent years making significant inroads into science and other industries. Plus you then have to look at the fact that traditional techniques for governments raising revenue have increasing problems in the era of online and globalisation, which will eventually force governments to innovate and change the way they raise money. Add in the transformation of the ownership of the capital system that appears to be underway, and in 100 years time, capitalism as we have known it in the past could look as anachronistic as feudalism is today.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2018 13:13:41 GMT
I honestly think that with globalisation and the Information Age we're moving away from the traditional dichotomies (capitalism vs. communism) towards something very different. I'm noticing that public patronage is now very big as a means of supporting artists and their projects online. Platforms such as Patreon, Twitch, Kickstarter, Indiegogo and so on; are pretty much synonymous with online content. So Communism as it has been known? Eh, likely not. Communities, though? I think there's a lot going on with communities at the moment. We're right in the middle of a new Industrial Revolution that's reshaping our ideologies with the technology we use. I too think the 'isms, the systems of governance and control that have existed till now are under a period of rapid transformation. The movements you refer to are for me but the tip of the iceberg, with open source and creative commons having already transformed the IT industry, turning business models on their heads and in recent years making significant inroads into science and other industries. Plus you then have to look at the fact that traditional techniques for governments raising revenue have increasing problems in the era of online and globalisation, which will eventually force governments to innovate and change the way they raise money. Add in the transformation of the ownership of the capital system that appears to be underway, and in 100 years time, capitalism as we have known it in the past could look as anachronistic as feudalism is today. I know someone who knows another fellow, a physicist, that can build a 3D printer in his apartment with what's now available in your local electronics store. We can literally affect the lives of human beings that we would never have encountered with the technology of thirty years ago. Wi-fi is more commonly available than drinking water. We've come a long way from bag phones that cost $4000 USD and weighed roughly the size of someone's torso. And that's if we just stay on Earth. Imagine the jurisdictional mayhem of trying to govern, let's say, a space station in orbit of Mars. It'd take something like three, maybe four generations before they consider themselves autonomous in their own right and demand a government of their own. Then, put an interplanetary economy on top of that. How do we judge the market economy of another planet? Not just another planet, but two or even three worlds operating in tandem. It adds an entirely new dimensional axis to how supply and demand are structured. ( Neuromancer, guys. At the very least, we're heading straight for Neuromancer.)
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