Re: <nettime> Jaron lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

> But isn't it all just a bit Luddite? What kind of work were all those Kodak
> employees doing? Putting transparencies in plastic boxes to post to the
> owners. It's just a rearrangement of social labour, like when Manchester

Actually a substantial chunk of their work was related to the 
military-industrial complex -- as photography (especially unusual techniques and 
processes) was crucial to early (airborne) surveillance, global mapping, and 
weapons research.

JH

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