I'm sure there are debates on this, but I'm blanking at the moment, except for what is perhaps the earliest (and surely one of the most interesting): Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward" vs. William Morris's "News from Nowhere."
At 02:33 PM 7/17/2006, you wrote:
>George Scialabba wrote:
> > When you're feeling like an anarchist, do you see any way to combine a
> > sophisticated, hi-tech economy with decentralized, or at least
> > strictly accountable, political authority?
>
>What factors of a high-tech economy would make top-down forms of
>organization necessary? (If the critiques are well-known, please point me
>in the right direction, this is very interesting to me.)
>
>(Oddly enough, I learn a lot about anarchism from observing software
>corporations... for instance, they often don't make the blunder of
>choosing representatives, say for standards bodies or PR purposes, who end
>up wielding more power than them. In contrast to citizens electing gov't
>representatives.)
>
>
>Tayssir
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