osfa_2030Taking notes of McKenzie Wark's "Capital is Dead" --- on the new hegemonic class that would be now on top of traditional capitalists:
"The vectoralist class owns and controls "the vector" [I believe the concept is related to Bratton's Stack p. 10; also to Virilio and H. Innis, note 20], a concept I use to describe in the abstract the infrastructure on which information is routed, whether through time or space. A vector in geometry is simply a line of fixed length but of unfixed position [hm]. It is a way of thinking about technology as having something about it that shapes the world in a particular way, but which can shape different aspects of the world. You can own stocks or flows of information, but far better to own the vector, the legal and technical protocols for making otherwise abundant information scarce." P. 45
"The vector of information includes the capacity to transmit, store, and process information. It is the material means for assembling socalled "big data" and realizing its predictive potential. The vectoralist class owns and controls patents, which preserve monopolies on these technologies. It owns the brands and celebrities that galvanize attention. It owns the logistics and supply chains that keep information in its proprietary stacks." P. 13
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