Netocracy

Netocracy is a word that was invented in the early 1990s from the editorial advisory board of the American technology magazine Wired. As a portmanteau of Internet and aristocracy netocracy refers to a perceived global upper class, whose power is based on technological advantages and the ability to organize themselves in business networks; In contrast, the bourgeoisie gradually losing its influence is portrayed.

The concept was later used by the Swedish philosophers Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist for her book The netocrats. The new power elite and life after capitalism taken (originally published in 2000 in the Swedish language as Nätokraterna - boken om det elektroniska klassamhället in German Redline Wirtschaftsverlag published on April 1, 2006).

The netocracy concept is compared therein with Richard Florida's concept of the creative class. Bard and Söderqvist define as a counterpoint to netocracy an undercoat, which they call consumtariat.

Other Uses

The word netocracy is also used as a portmanteau word, which consists of Internet and democracy, rather than from the internet and aristocracy, to the original English Quotes:

• " In Seattle, organized labor ran interference for the ragtag groups assembled behind it, marshaling several thousand union members who Feared did free trade might also send Their jobs abroad. In Washington, lab focused on lobbying Congress over the China trade issue, leaving the IMF and the World Bank to the ad hoc Netocracy. "
• "From his bungalow in Berkeley, he's spreading the word of grassroots netocracy to the Beltway. He Formed in Internet political consulting firm with Jerome ... "