The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Maybe We're Closer to "You'll Own Nothing" Than We Realize Maybe we should rephrase the slogan to "you'll appear to own things you don't actually control and be happy." The World Economic Forum's catchphrase  you'll own nothing and be happy  was widely mocked  as an eyebrow-raising vision of a "sharing economy" future without the implicit agency granted by full ownership. Renting stuff that one needed only for one-time use has long been a market, and car-sharing makes sense for urban dwellers who only need a vehicle on occasion. But to  own nothing  still implies powerlessness and poverty, not happiness , which continues to be associated with owning income streams and nice things, i.e. wealth. Given our dependence on software / digital rights and the  phantom wealth  of credit-asset bubbles,"how much do we actually own?" is a fair question.  Consider the recent  New York Times  article  Why Tech Companies Are Not Your Fr...

  Digital Public Infrastructure for One Earth, One Family and One Future G20 leaders meeting uncovers new technocratic concepts JACOB NORDANGÅRD At the G20 leaders' meeting in India, under the motto “One Earth, One Family, One Future”, the new concept Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and the NGO One Future Alliance were launched. These initiatives intend to increase the interconnectedness of the data-based systems with the aim of meeting the Sustainable Development Goals – The fusion of the United Nation’s Agenda 2030 and World Economic Forum's Fourth Industrial Revolution. This constitutes the foundation for the technetronic society for social and planetary engineering that was envisioned by Zbigniew Brzezinski in his 1970 book  Between two Ages . Welcome to the New International Economic Order! Everything the G20 does is based on Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals. The leaders of the world's 19 largest economies commit to "accelerate the full and ef...