Tuesday, January 30, 2001

Cyber-Serfdom
Then there was the panel about the 21st-century corporation, during which participants described this age of
digital Darwinism in chilling terms: The key to winning in business today is adapt or die, get wired or get
killed, work 24 hours a day from everywhere or be left behind. Finally, during the question time, Howard
Stringer, chairman of Sony America, stood up and said: "Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision
of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the
world, I want to get off."
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