The Internet Gold Rash
The newest internet companies have all taken very small slices of the internet pie. It's easy to consider them as great multi-national corporations, I mean Google is even cool, but against what's capable with the internet and in society across the board, they've all been coaxed by the same mentality which affected the goldrush miners during the worlds gold rushes. If one stops to think about the progressive development of the world, technology and society, one is hit with all-powerful will to survive and against all odds. It's the funny thing of course, to mention like this, but in fact, against all odds, that the Sun bombards us with a high enough blast to disable the satellites, the Earths electro-magnetic poles reverse, the "third world" revolts against technological encumbrance, or the emancipatory potential of a Real World Order is enforced; the hurtles are so many and so great, the chances of us actually succeeding in gaining domination as a species ag...