the end of power

[Os Cangaceiros]

Moises Naim thinks people should stop being negative nancies about the state of the world:

http://reason.com/archives/2013/04/14/the-end-of-power

[Lenina Rosenweg]

It sounds like an updated version of Alvin Toffler's The Third Wave. There are some grains of truth to the essay, global capitalism has changed and yes, technology has led to a "horizontalization" of corporate structure.To an extent this could be seen as the means of production outgrowing capitalist private ownership.Capitalism creates its own gravediggers, as a famous German guy said. Naim is very one sided though, the capitalist mode of production is very much alive. The changes in Asia-a high tech sector in India, a selective boom in parts of China, go hand in hand with vast rural devastation.

More people than ever are living in cities but has Naim ever read Mike Davis' Planet of Slums?


In so doing, they transfer the culture, approaches, and techniques they learned in the United States. Inevitably, the dynamic, competitive, and disruptive business culture common in entrepreneurial hubs clashes with the monopolistic and traditional ways of doing business often found in developing countries.

The cult of the entepreneur-immigrants working in Silicon Valley will save the world. The word "disruptive" should probably be banned