With London appearing to celebrate similar power losses to New York region of a fortnight earlier, it is time to ask how many other accounting follies will people be savaged by of the type where the sustaining capability of the network is more important than that of separate organisations but the accountant has systemised the exact opposite

This is a fundamental issue of democracy in an networking age because currently accountants and allied professions have a monopoly of measurement which prioritises measuring individual organsiations or units within them never the whole system. This compounds great conflicts at system levels- other london examples have been railtrack and london's own transport, and this is just the most visible infrastructures- when you mess with intangible and human community decisions that needed network rather than just individual focus you breed apartheids and then terror in a locally and intimately connected world posted by ..., 11:51 AM  permalink