Comment on: Is technology changing traditional power structures?

Bigthink — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:49:07 +0100

In the grand scheme of things... money is still power, as ever. That said, it's easier for imagination to create products--and those products make money. It is easier for the fruits of desire to come into being. The imagination is the eternal mint, the true Midas horde. That's the genius of computer code, the digital world, the web. Kids in front of computers, with only their fingers, caffeine and nascent know-how (which is idealism, and the opposite of the old boys club), can suddenly become the lever that moves the world. Witness Youtube, Napster, etc. Where will it lead us? Into a pleasant, decadent infantilization... sitting in front of screens?...

My apologies for the ambivalence.

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