PPT Slide
The future of telework in the information society
copyright Noel Hodson SW2000 Telework Studies
Compare the electronic revolution with the
1785 to 1918 was characterised by “Hold your Coat Capitalism”
The automation of industry created immense wealth and
created the Dark Satanic Mills in Northern England.
It took 150 years of brutal poverty and World War1
for society to start to include everyone in the bonanza.
Today, as electronic automation grows,
the same human forces are at work.
“Gangster Economies” proliferate creating
aristocrats with immense wealth alongside millions of poor.
ENRON, JAPAN, WORLD BANK funded DICTATORS.
But, as President George Bush Snr. said “There is no
such thing as privacy anymore. Forget privacy”.
Wealth sharing will not take 150 years this time.