Talk:Technocapitalism

What on earth does:

that it is a form of capitalism in which intangibles such as creativity and knowledge play the parts that raw materials, factory labor and capital played in industrial capitalism. mean? They have quite a few differences, for example, once an idea has been thought of, it can be reproduced effectively for free (I.e. once someone thought of the Illiad, each new copy was much cheaper than the original, but one someone dug the first ton of coal, the next ton of coal was just as hard to get out.) So the statement is meaningless without further context. Jrincayc 18:39, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

From the book The Useful Arts, written in 1842:


 * There has, probably, never been an age, in which the practical applications of science have employed so large a portion of the talent and enterprise of the community, as in the present; nor one, in which their cultivation has yielded such abundant rewards. And it is not the least of the distinctions of our own country, to have contributed to the advancement of this branch of improvement, by many splendid instances of inventive genius, and successful perseverance. (Vol 1. page 4)


 * But in modern times, there is a maturity, a cautiousness, a habit of induction, which is founded on the advanced state of philosophic knowledge. Our arts have been the arts of science, built up from an acquaintance with principles, and with the relations of cause and effect. With less bodily strength, and probably with not more vigorous intellects, we have acquired a dominion over the physical and moral world, which nothing but the aid of philosophy could have enabled us to establish. We convert naturel agents into ministers of our pleasure and power, and supply our deficiencies of personal force by the application of acquired knowledge. Among us, to be secure, it is not necessary that a man should be powerful and alert; for even where laws fail, the weak take rank with the strong, because the weakest man may arm himself with the most formidable means of defence. The labor of a hundred artificers is now performed by the operations of a single machine. We traverse the ocean in security, because the arts have furnished us a more unfailing guide than the stars. We accomplish what the ancients only dreamed of in their fables; we ascend above the clouds, and penetrate into the abysses of the ocean. (Vol 1, page 16-17)

I ask, what is so new about Technocapitalism that has not been thought of many times in the last hundred and sixty years? Jrincayc 18:39, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)

New or not, it seems to be used by enough people to have a place. We will know at somepoint whether it has taken off. For now, it seems entirely reasonable to document usage and move on.

Stirling Newberry 06:14, 25 Jan 2004 (UTC)

If you wish to make changes to this article, please integrate them within the article. Do not destroy the article as it stands (which includes lots more information than your description). Thank you. R ADICAL B ENDER &#9733;  04:43, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)

User:68.225.250.146 changed the page to be:

Technocapitalism is a term used to cover an evolution of market capitalism rooted in technological invention and innovation. It can be considered an emerging era, with distinctive characteristics that differ from those of industrial and post-industrial capitalism.

One of the salient features of technocapitalism is the overarching importance of intangibles, and the emergence of new economic sectors, such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, bioinformatics, genetic medicine, molecular computing or biorobotics. These sectors may become to the twenty-first century what aerospace and electronics were to the twentieth.

The emergence of these sectors is driven by a new ecology of business organizations, or experimental firms, that are highly focused on research, and depend on it for their survival. Also driving the emergence of technocapitalism is, in part, the vast accumulation of inventions and innovations of the second half of the twentieth century, and the massification of higher education, particularly in science and technology fields.

(For more information, search the term "technocapitalism" in any web search engine).

The material added was heavily POV, inaccurately implies general usage when, in fact it is a relatively small group using the term, and does not contain any balancing material. The page was originally slated for deletion as originally written, as being obscure, inaccurate and POV. I dissented stating that the term had documented use by a wide enough range of people to merit a mention. The changes made were based on the available citations of the word, rather than by the blurb from the book's web site. Wiki isn't advertising. Stirling Newberry 13:23, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Technocapitalism a eté employee par Douglas Kellner dans l´anée 1997 dans son article "New technologies, TechnoCities and the Prospects for Democratization.

NPoV
A section on criticisms of the subject should be added. Surely, it is not neutral to state that "technocapitalism" is the road to heaven. Trotskyist (talk) 17:28, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

COI
This article has been heavily edited by someone from Irvine, California to promote the work of Prof Luis Suarez-Villa who teaches (you guessed it) at the University of California, Irvine according to http://www.technocapitalism.com/applet/about_author.htm. Toddst1 (talk) 14:21, 22 June 2012 (UTC)