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Automated production arises to change humanity's relationship with objects. Objects and things, once peripheral, become primary and abundant.
Automated production arises to change humanity's relationship with objects. Objects and things, once peripheral, become primary and abundant.
Scarcity to Abundance
Capital accumulation makes the transition from tangible assets, formerly based on land, labor, andcapital (forces of production) to the commodity and its image.
Information and images displace industrial production as a primary force, celebrities and entertainers emerge as economic titans of the post industrial order.
Wall Street traders (information exchangers tied to computers and screens), once peripheral players that added liquidity to markets, become primary, displacing traditional Wall Street business that once catered to clients that formerly invested and to firms that formerly produced tangible products.
Images duplication joins factory style automation in the duplication of people, places and things, creating copies of what once original.
Societal domination and alienation has been driven largely by a media that operated one way. Web 2.0 (the read - write web) offers opportunities for participation and collaboration, redirecting information flows, overcoming traditional barriers created by hierarchical organization, age, race, gender, national status, geography and access to capital.
James Pruett may be reached at jameshpruett@gmail.com
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