beta
Imaginary Futures
The global village hadn’t healed the divisions of nation, class and culture which had plagued the industrial era. [...] For some reason, utopia had been delayed.
2007, barbrook, bookreview, culture saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.culturewars.org.uk/2007-05/barbrook.htm
Inside IT: How we have been fooled by utopian visions of the future | Technology | The Guardian
Business and political leaders have consistently pushed a carefully orchestrated fantasy of the future to distract us from the present, says Richard Barbrook.
2007, barbrook, bookreview, conspiracy, guardian saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/jun/07/guardianweeklytechnologysection.it
"The Class of the New", Richard Barbrook | openDemocracy
Barbrook's thought-provoking commentary, "The makers of the future", traces the intertwined fortunes of two contrasting conceptions of "the class of the new" – the New Ruling Class, and...
2006, barbrook, bookreview, innovation, invention saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts/barbrook_3762.jsp
The Hi-Tech Gift Economy by Richard Barbrook
It is impossible to understand my article without remembering the bizarre moment in the late-1990s when so many pundits believed that the Net had almost magical powers.
1998, 2005, altruism, anarchism, anarcho-communism, barbrook, capitalism, communism, copyright, culture, More... saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_12/barbrook
Imaginary Futures
Imaginary Futures demonstrates how politics influenced the way this powerful tool is controlled today and calls upon all who are cyber-connected to use the Internet for taking revolutiona...
2007, barbrook, book, futurology, politics saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.imaginaryfutures.net