[PEN-L:8256] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:Information revolution?

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We might distinguish between the decentralization of the administration of capitalism and the decentralization of the organization of production. The points of production were scattered from the cities to the suburbs , from the North to the South in the U.S. and from the U.S. to the neo-colonies. This was made possible by the revolution in communication and transportation ; made possible in part by the information advances, but also mass production of airplanes , containerization, the advances in the internal combustion engine, earlier mass electrification, artificial materials such as plastics. There is a general revolution in science and technology that includes the information advances and more.

Charles Brown

>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> 06/23/99 11:26AM >>>
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