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| 'Death throes' | Beyond Dante's inferno | ||||||||||||||||
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Jilted ! the understated though not unsaid desire Smothered by 'ignorance' omce more again within me the fire My 'sanity' by this yo-yo-ing high and low of my emotions does tire. My life my 'loves' have turned my 'existance' into one of a self-certified liar. I weaken dissapating 'hope' as I plod, into the waitng darkness to 'retire' Save me is the cry I pleeee..ad satiate pleee...ase my very, very, selfish need. Will it be so? time I am certain shall tell as and when and if... I awake into my heaven or my hell. by [email protected] |
The fires will burn, from the fury of hell, and there will be the birth, of the inferno..... (Dante) careful be you of the inferno hell may for certain your ashes return a price that be paid for using the flaming is teaching another to make it your turn leave the inferno in hell where its nurtured in easing of pains are the worth of our 'I' live it and build it with clear thought and reason 'truth' does prevail never the lie. by [email protected] | ||||||||||||||||
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So what is the new economy? When we talk about the new economy, we're talking about a world in which people work with their bare hands. A world in which communications technology creates global competition - not just for running computers, but also for bank loans and other services that can't be packed into a crate and shipped. Innovation is more important than mass production. A world in which investment buys new concepts or ideas, rather than new machines. A world in which rapid change is a constant. A world at least as different as the industrial age was from its agricultural predecessor. A world so different, that its emergence can be described as a revolution. Free markets are central to it. The Soviet Union's collapse settled the debate between market economies and those of a socialist variety. But simply to say that the new economy is about the unprecedented power of global markets to innovate and to distribute it more fairly is to miss the most interesting part of the story. Markets themselves behave profoundly. To understand that, start by examining the mystery of Microsoft. The fact that Bill Gates is the world's richest man belies a huge shift in the values of capitalism. Sales of US$11 billion, and most of its assets walk in and out of the doors wearing T-shirts. far more than either IBM or General.....Why? Because the rules of competition are changing. Companies like Microsoft score over paragons of the industrial age.Microsoft's rise is a testimony to the power of ideas in the new economy. Working with information is very different from working with the steel and glass from which our grandparents built their wealth. Information is easier to produce and harder to control than stuff you can drop on your foot. For one can produce and ship it anywhere, almost instantly and almost for free. Production and distribution, the basics can increasingly be taken for granted. Innovation and marketing are all. So an information economy is more open - it doesn't take a production line to compete, just a good idea and prices that are competitive. Information is easy not just to duplicate, but to replicate. Successful firms have to kcked far ahead of copycats nipping at their heels. The average size of companies shrinks. New products and knowledge based inovations take months rather than years, and market power is increasingly based on making sense of an over abundance. What's true is that the shift to an information economy is redefining how we need to think . We don't know how to compete in it, because information seeps so easily that super-permanance is a thing of the past. Companies based on services like Amazon.com has infiltrated its virtual bookshelves into Web sites the world over. Do we know how to manage it, or whether it ultimately needs oversight at all. A final thing we don't know is where - or how - the revolution will end. We are building it together an edifice of our collective choices. Based on an edited article from The Red Herring magzine. | |||||||||||||||||
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