technocracy – Warp and Woof

General Motors, the Model 20th Century Corporation?

Alfred P. Sloan’s Vision … and Legacy In the beginning, there was Henry Ford. His two brilliant ideas: the Model T (standardization for the masses) and the River Rouge assembly line (mass production of that standard product, now known as “Fordism”) – both symbolize the start, early in the 20th century, of a technological economyContinue reading “General Motors, the Model 20th Century Corporation?”

Circles of Trust and Civil War

Circles of Trust is a very simple model of a complicated social process — as with many things, oversimplifying these big ideas may lead to political gain, but is essentially dangerous!