ABSTRACT
The Corporate State has come to assume the guise of modern technology; the management experts lend to the power of capital the sanction of science. Scientific knowledge at the service of the Corporate State assumes the purpose of the Corporate State. In the corporate and military hierarchies, systems designers and systems analysts are the new fair-haired heroes. Corporate officials at General Dynamics in Fort Worth tell that robots not only have more endurance and accuracy than human workers, but give management “more flexibility.” The Ronald Reagan Administration’s corporate tax giveaway in the early 1980s paid, dollar for dollar, for practically every word processor, video data terminal, microprocessor, computer and computer-driven piece of equipment installed in our workplaces. Consider the energy issue for a moment to see the impact of the Corporate State. Artificial intelligence has long plagued management, but it is no laughing matter to learn that real artificial intelligence is being produced in university and corporate laboratory machines.
