William Irwin Thompson wrote:
via p2p foundationDecentralization of cities and the miniaturization of technology will alter the center- periphery dialectic of traditional civilization and make a whole new cultural level possible. What will take place in the metaindustrial village will be that the four classical economies of human history, hunting and gathering, agriculture, industry, and cybernetics, will all be recapitulated within a single deme. We will look back to where we have been in history, gather up all the old economies, and then turn on the spiral in a new direction...[continue reading]
Songhai Centre image via liberator
