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To a certain degree, I would say yes. Whether it is good or bad news, I don't
know, I presume it depends on what people want to do with it. It could be
both... Faster communications mean higher speed in all processes and higher
overall productivity: Just as Moore's law has ever more chips running at ever
faster speeds being produced on ever smaller spaces, it seems mankind walks the
same path. The result will be what we want to make out of it. The world in 20
years will be pure reflection of what we collectively envision today and
individually do every day.
I remain very optimistic as more and more people will be able to build their own
truths and follow their own paths, no longer being dependant on whatever their
authorities want to feed them, which can be truly dangerous as the various past
wars have repeatedly shown.
As for big brands maybe dominating the whole world, well who dominates whom?
Coke having everyone drinking Coke, or everybody having to drink Coke for Coke
to keep on living, or face brutal restructurations, if for ANY reason, on some
whim people suddenly change habits as they did temporarily in 98 on the toxic
can issue...
:-)
Gwenn
Zaheer Bhyat wrote:
> Warning: Philosophical rambling - delete if you're not interested
>
> Gwenn,
>
> reading this post set me thinking about a quote i read recently. "never
> before in the history of man has there been so much uniformity of
> demand"...what this means is that whether you live in th US, Europe, Asia,
> Africa or anywhere else on this planet every urban kid wants Coke, Nike,
> McDonalds, a Sony Play station, a Ferrari...you get the message...
>
> We have developed the Internet to such an extent that the most impoverished
> countries in Africa all have Internet Cafe's...a natural result of this is
> the mass marketing of global companies will continue to infiltrate the
> darkest reaches of humanity...it is then not surprising that global equity
> indicies will become more linked and move in unison with global demand (as
> the 3rd world focuses on cheap production of goods and the first world on
> intellectual capital)?
>
> Are we reaching towrd a point where economic fundamentals within
> jurisdictional borders will no longer govern the desirability of owning an
> enterprise and that all large enterprises will be judged on global
> competitiveness and global viability of product? obviously this assumes that
> goods can be freely and cheaply moved from one place to another.
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