Speaking about the implications of a knowledge based strategy, Boisot states: In industrialized countries, this kind of management probably holds the key to continued prosperity and social stability. In the emerging economies it offers the prospect of by-passing the gruesome and dehumanizing experience of industrialization through which developed countries initially secured their wealth. Just how gruesome and dehumanizing can be seen in this report which highlights the degree to which the British Industrial Revolution was dependent on child slavery.
Depressingly child slavery remains an economically driven blight on any claim on the part of the human race to be civilised species - and I make no apology for the photograph, its reality.
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The persistent danger of a consumerist society driven entirely by price and not cost.
Posted by Tim Wright | August 3, 2010 9:23 AM
Posted on August 3, 2010 09:23
Gandhi, when asked what he thought about Western Civilization, said he thought it would be a good thing. How little we have learnt. I've just returned from Bali and I was appalled at the level of poverty experienced by the Balinese given the lavish and opulent surroundings afforded to tourists, which we gleefully accept.
Little thought is given to our fellow human beings outside of our relationship circles. When presented with the argument of exploitation, if not downright slavery, of people in Bali I was told that they did not know any better and they were happy with their lot.
How many more years of evolution will it take for us to become anything approaching civilised?
Posted by Alan Byrne | August 6, 2010 7:30 AM
Posted on August 6, 2010 07:30