I got home last night after attending the awards ceremony of La Voz de Almería in which, incidentally, said the orchestra (albeit too loud to bother coming in a few notes ) and the number of plunger comedian who served over the 3 interventions. During the latter part of the cocktail was speaking (as a listener more than anything else) an interesting conversation between two dear friends about whether the current crisis is a more of the many crises that capitalism has given, or whether it is something deeper.
Back home, car, reminded the conference of Carles Manera I attended last week in which he spoke of a new industrial revolution. I also remembered a lecture by me (sometimes I have a memory of fish) two years ago, in which he spoke of the crisis overlapping. And, this morning, just waking up, even before the face to recognize hard work daily in the mirror, I returned to the head. So today, before proceeding with the drafting of the report, I am compelled to make this year of discharge, or I can not trabajar en paz en todo el día.
Vayamos por partes. Lo primero es hacerse bien la pregunta: ¿estamos viviendo un tiempo de Revolución? Y cuando digo Revolución, lo hago conscientemente en mayúscula, porque con ello me refiero a un cambio disruptor, uno de esos momentos en los que los historiadores ponen la marca de un hito, de una nueva edad.
Los argumentos a favor son convincentes. La globalización y, sobre todo, las nuevas tecnologías han modificado la forma en la que las sociedades se proveen de sus bienes. Las TIC han commoditizado la industria, que se ha convertido en una parte del proceso de que apenas aporta valor añadido. Esto que, a priori, podría parecer una anécdota is more serious than it seems, because it involves the breaking of a model that gave birth to the Industrial Revolution. Today, ownership of capital goods (machinery industries) is not relevant, economic power has shifted to the distribution and design phases, which are used ICT and knowledge intensive. But it's also most of the major multinationals are now time car or appliance, are derived from intellectual capital and the R & D intensive, information technology and software and biotechnology. Change is not the demise of Ford or General Motors, is the replacement of themselves as business leaders from Microsoft, Apple, Google, Monsanto and Celera Genomics.
But to find a true revolution should have tectonic shifts in the social field. Within this context we might note the impact that social networking and networking are creating. For example, always the work of espionage had been to steal the secrets of the enemy failed to publish, but to use to your advantage. Wikileaks today, little more than a handful of people with an idea, has been on the ropes at the U.S. State Department with mass leaking of documents. The aim is not profit, but transparency. The copyright are in a time of redefinition despite the pressures of the authors and copyright protection agencies, because the technology has become a dead letter in the same way that many of our laws have been overtaken by the reality of technology. Human society is beginning to leap national boundaries, the associations of interest today are not limited to the company, or country. In the same way that multinationals are now easier than ever to emerge and develop, using the same tools, social movements begin to overcome the traditional divisions. Society begins to be polarized between those who have access to the network and those who do not and among those with broadband access (which allows access to content and more intensive services) and those without.
And below these changes, almost carefree and fun as we approach the limits of our planet, moving towards the mother of all Malthusian crisis of mankind (since they already have been). A situation where we do not currently or in which we tend to think that we will end up saving technology (see eg Dyson sphere , that although there were enough technology to build-in more extreme approach, "would not matter enough in the solar system to complete). At the other extreme
of argument, the argument that we are seeing a more of a systemic crisis of capitalism also has arguments in its favor. Lighting the economic model after World War II has hardly changed, the service economy and then began. In addition, an important part of this outsourcing process from outsourcing of processes that were formerly part of the manufacturing process. In this scheme of thought, the process of globalization is the son of that started in the beginning of s. XX and was interrupted by world wars, as safety valves for the pressures that have accumulated in the previous process. In this long view term, the immediate past differences are relative, being the current chapter one in a historical process have not yet reached the break.
However, something tells me that today a political-economic discourse as Marx would not make sense, that the explanations on the use of the economy are not able to cover all aspects of this multifaceted crisis that society begins to discover a less innocent world and more connected when the power of ideas can make a few knees to the states. Something tells me that within a few centuries, our descendants (if they survive) will look today and put on the border between the twentieth and early twenty-first of a new age: the Connected Age.
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