[FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

[glen ☣]

My intention was to try to assert that all globalism is fundamentally based in technology (from planes to batteries to P2P nets).  All the global, human interactions you're describing exist because of the various technologies we have facility with.  Techies are the elitest of the elite.  And until/if the singularity, people who show facility with tech will be in a very powerful position.  (After the apocalypse, I'm hoping my beer-making skills will keep me alive.)

Hence, yes, _techies_ may survive any pressures away from globalism.  But that's only because of our elite skillset and predilections.  To deny that privileged position would be strange.  Every other category that might be called "elite" will be subject to social volatility.

On 01/31/2017 02:01 PM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> I'm still much more interested in the possibility that we are so global,
> culturally (i.e. taken for granted, daily events, open research and
> software) that populism, any of the 10 examples cited, can reverse it, It
> tipped.

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☣ glen