[PEN-L:8196] Re: Re:Information revolution?

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rod Hay wrote:

>I don't doubt that these things are happening at least marginally, but does
>this constitute a "revolution" similar in importance as the industrial
>revolution in the 19th century or the corporate revolution in the 20th
>century.

Computers are over 50 years old now; they're no longer some new kid on the
technological block. Also, radical and ceaseless technological change is as
old as capitalism; to argue that there's some qualitatively new aspect to
new technologies would require that you prove the rate of technical change
has accelerated. Why is the tech revo all that much more revolutionary than
the telegraph, the steamship, the telephone, or radio?

Doug