Does the future hold some kind of a worker-ant slave society all over the planet?
That scenario assumes that the imminent global oil extraction peak and virtual disappearance of affordable energy will not derail the juggernaut of corporate rule, as dependent as it is on petroleum supply. As for alternative-living structures, a tribal model is proposed in this essay. by Jan Lundberg art by Tim Barton of Bluegreenearth.com The corporation is a relative newcomer in human social development, concurrent with the world’s greatest production of material things. Behind the corporations are individuals, but in the past hundred years in the U.S. the corporation has transcended individual rights and has achieved immortality as long as there is an accommodating society. In this essay we inquire whether transnational corporations operating today are on a course of taking ultimate power, leaving no country or community unconquered. Will today’s drab, foul-aired cubicle office environment one day be considered posh, as the growing population is fitted into work places that only se
