It can also be said that such a demand sounds like the dominating authority of management issuing orders of compliance to the slow, fleshy bodies of labor a demand made necessary by the need for increased human productivity in the face of hyper-speed information technologies. This reading is indeed possible and relevant, and the ideology behind such demands needs to be visualized and spoken, as do their consequences. The power to communicate is all too often not empowering to the worker. The e-conomy, the so called information age, is not completely virtual, nor can it ever be. Human destruction is inextricably linked to environmental destruction, as Marx and Engels asserted over a century ago.
Crises always drive adaptation and innovation, the alternative is usually annihilation.
Capitalism has proven extremely resilient, surviving democratic ideals, isolationism, economic depression, and the most blatant contradictions. The old adage about what doesn t kill you, only makes you stronger, could have been written in specific reference to capitalism. With the rise of technology, especially in the realm of information communications and management, many have made utopic claims of inevitably growing freedom due to the ease of access to information. So far, this democratization of information has fallen far short of such claims, rather living up to its moniker as the information superhighway, complete with broken down vehicles, hitchhikers, roadside debris, and the overbearing presence of massive commercial vehicles transporting market commodities. And much like its analog counterpart, little real development of mass transit.