ideas free of borders

[Eric Rosenbloom]

Here is a column by Norman Solomon about a book by Armand Mattelart,
translated last year to English as "Networking the World, 1794-2000".

<http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0320-05.htm>

Quote: Whether the instruments of unprecedented change were railroads,
undersea cables or electric patents, promoters spoke of wondrous
horizons. But the gaps were huge between "promises for a better world
due to technology" and "the reality of struggles for control of
communication devices." Elites routinely won those struggles.

This speaks to Pynchonian matters concerning The Grid, WASTE, the I.G.,
etc. -- Their efforts to create and control and profit from a new
universality versus the human Counterforce that can muck it up.

--
Eric R



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