[Homestead] For your comment, a look back from 2096

Don Bowen don.bowen at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 6 10:45:14 EDT 2008


White Collars Turn Blue
By PAUL KRUGMAN 
Published: September 29, 1996

"Perhaps the best way to describe the flawed vision of fin de siecle futurists is to say that, with few exceptions, they expected the coming of an ''immaculate'' economy -- one in which people would be largely emancipated from any grubby involvement with the physical world. The future, everyone insisted, would bring an ''information economy'' that would mainly produce intangibles. The good jobs would go to ''symbolic analysts,'' who would push icons around on computer screens; knowledge, rather than traditional resources like oil or land, would become the primary source of wealth and power."

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F06E4D9173CF93AA1575AC0A960958260&sec=&spon=&&scp=1&sq=krugman%20veterinary%20bangalore&st=cse

Don Bowen      KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html


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