Concentration in Corporate Power: On the Coming Binano Republic
Author(s)
Mooney, Pat Roy
Abstract
Exactly 100 years before Will Shakespeare presented his epic play on the corruptive nature of political power, another drama demonstrated the corruptive camaraderie of politics and science. In 1499 Leonardo Da Vinci left Milan to rendezvous with Niccolo Machiavelli. Together these two geniuses of art, science, and politics schemed to dam and divert rivers, monopolize agriculture and dominate the natural economic resources of central Italy. Has this relationship between technology and politics changed in the intervening 500 years? As our survival base erodes and uncertain new technologies muscle their way into our social infrastructure, extraordinarily powerful new corporate configurations are replacing governments and engineering new systems of control over almost everything.
