by Mark Allan Kaplan I believe, like many of us here at Campus Co-Evolve, that in any future world we seek to create we need to rethink our educational system from the ground up in terms of a developmental and evolutionary perspective, as opposed to a job training and enculturation perspective. This new system should be life-long and not limited to the so-called formative years, since we have solid evidence that development does not stop there…unless a culture puts a ceiling on it. Any new educational system also needs to be more decentralized and not limited to our traditional constructs of […]
Postcapitalism
The corporation that can live on for 100s or 1000s of years
The corporation that can live on for 100s or 1000s of years In a conversation on Facebook about Walkaway, one of my fave Doctorow novels, I’ve just read: “It would be quite difficult to make corporations immortal. Corporations exist while the value they are designed to generate is needed. If there’s not much more money to be made by giving that value (for various reasons), the money will go out of that corporation, and go somewhere else where it might turn a profit (or it’ll die and eat up the money you didn’t pull out earlier)” The sentence “Corporations exist while the […]
The corporation that can live on for 100s or 1000s of years In a conversation on Facebook about Walkaway, one of my fave Doctorow novels, I’ve just read: “It would be quite difficult to make corporations immortal. Corporations exist while the value they are designed to generate is needed. If there’s not much more money to be made by giving that value (for various reasons), the money will go out of that corporation, and go somewhere else where it might turn a profit (or it’ll die and eat up the money you didn’t pull out earlier)” The sentence “Corporations exist while the […]