Declan on Sterling on TIA
Brief interview, in which Bruce Sterling manages to point out our future under TIA:
An insane information-hungry KGB or a relatively open and decent government? Vote with your feet. Get the hell away from those lunatics. Who the hell wants to live in a USA with a TIA in it? Why would you want to invest it that country? The currency would crash. The political elite would annihilate one another.
A non transparent state would be all too powerful. It is, already.
Comments
There was already a history of government involvement in industrial espionage among the NATO allies long before 9/11, Gulf War II or the proposals for the TIA. That makes the point about investment particularly telling -- not just in the sense of "why build a plant in a country with poor quality of life?" but from the more pressing concern that your trade secrets will be available to your competitors once you start doing business in the US.
Posted by: Prentiss Riddle | June 6, 2003 2:05 AM
Are you referring to the US, when you say "poor queality of life?
Posted by: Camilo | October 2, 2003 11:44 AM