interesting narrative on globe spanning collaborative projects and the importance of networking in the information age.

Can’t find an online copy yet but I recently read it in Understanding Me.

The Coming Corporate State by A. Raven Thomson
wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_fascism
wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism
wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylorism

… maybe not. Excellent find Bill W. re: Technocracy book. Can’t believe it’s really public domain. Technocracy Inc. is very, very clear that no transition period is allowed. All or nothing!

Micro industry powered by Craigslist?

This article, “Cyberhumanity: The blurring boundaries between people and technology,” published in Employment Relations Today, is six years old now but it deals with, among other things, the role of augmented reality in the workplace. Because augmented reality is just beginning to come into it’s own this year (e.g., http://layar.eu/), it seems like a subject well worth considering. Companies are increasingly managing not just people and technologies but rather the intersections between them, something that could be termed cyberhuman resources.

I got excited when I saw this, but the first line of the description sort of says it all (“1945 edition”). Technocracy has some neat ideas if someone could just make it make sense for an information economy and come up with a transition plan (that is, something besides “this would work if all North America started doing it”).

I’m a big phile phan (ala Diamond Age), in that I think philes as described are something like I’m getting at with clan-companies. It sort of ties into my conception of multi-nationals as mutant governments that have figured out how to live without territory and borders.