The Netocracts: Futurica Trilogy 1History is always written from the perspective of the ruling or rising elite at the time of writing. Concepts like The Stone Age, The Bronze Age, etc. were of course unknown during the stone age and the bronze age. They were invented in the 1800s to make sense of a development that seemed to reach its climax with industrialisation... |
Contents
Introduction | |
Feudalism capitalism and informationalism | |
Plurarchal society the death of etatism and the crisis | |
Information propaganda and entertainment | |
Curators nexialists and eternalists The netocrats and their | |
Globalisation the death of mass media and the growth of | |
The new biology and netocratic ethics | |
The convulsions of collectivity the death of man and | |
Network pyramids attentionalistic power hierarchies | |
Sex and tribalism virtual education and the inequality of | |
Behind the firewalls netocratic civil war and virtual | |
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Netocracy: The New Power Elite and Life After Capitalism Alexander Bard,Jan Söderqvist No preview available - 2002 |
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