::fibreculture:: Globalisation

[craig bellamy]

Hi all,

Being a bleak history type person in a 'ruthless discipline of context", I 
get the feeling that a times-are-a-changing and we really must reassess a 
few of the things that we as progressive computer people, or activists, or 
critics, or netizens have taken for granted over the past six or seven 
years.  The first is that 4 trillion dollars has vanished into thin air 
from the US dot coms during the past year. This is (get this) more than 2 
1/2 times Australian GDP or the entire Australian federal budget for the 
next 33 years! The other is that Labor is more popular in Australia now 
than in any time since the early 70's. Perhaps this puts a bit of a new 
spin on 'globalisation' and ICANN and cyber-culture and other determinist 
futures that we may have forgotten operate in a real world. Maybe the 
corporations won't look so bad when they are all going broke. The next few 
months will be telling.

all the best,

Craig Bellamy