Steven Johnson has an excellent column in the New York Times, on the iPhone and the mixed merits of open and closed platforms. He begins with a reference to Jonathan Zittrain’s work on “generativity,” (familiar to readers of this blog) i.e. “the ability of a self-contained system to provide an independent ability to create, generate [...]
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As I was reading about the radical cultural and organizational changes at Cisco (“Revolution in San Jose,” Fast Company, December/January), I found some great insights into my questions about how ‘socialist’ our large corporations tend to be. Regardless of their possible relevance to political-economic theory, the changes at Cisco are fascinating in and of themselves. Cisco was once the largest company [...]
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