[PEN-L:8226] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:Information revolution?

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Devine wrote:

>I think the main impact of the InfoRev has been decentralization.

Except that there was a tremendous exodus of corporate HQ from New York and
other big cities in the 1960s and 1970s, an exodus that has now largely
ended. And we're seeing a tremendous gentrification of old urban cores,
especially those where finance and tech are major presences. I see this in
NYC every day; I saw it in Chicago last week, and in San Francisco and
Vancouver last year. Lower Manhattan, from 23rd St. southward, has been
filled with the thousands of "content providers" who make up Silicon Alley,
and the South of Market neighborhood of SF has similarly been transformed
into Digital Gulch. So it's, like, a dialectic, you know?

Doug