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CIA Investing in Modular Green Energy
Paladin144 writes "The CIA's venture capital arm, In-Q-Tel, has announced a strategic development agreement with SkyBuilt Power Inc. The CIA seems to be interested in SkyBuilt's new Mobile Power Station, which can be parachuted into remote locations and be up and running in a few hours with only 2 people needed to set it up. The MPS harnesses both solar and wind power and is capable of up to 150 kilowatts of electricity. The devices uses off-the-shelf components and easily swappable parts to be cost-effective."
You can't call what the Americans do fascism. Fascism is utterly obsessed with the preservation and control from a strong central state. Fascism and socialism have more to do with each other then the American system does. Fascism tends to have extremely strong social protection models. I wouldn't call what the Americans have a terribly strong social protection model.
The Americans on the other hand have something else entirely. I personally think it is too soon to really define it, as I think the system is still working itself out. The Americans also have a very strong set of civil institutions that are close impossible to uproot that makes them relatively unique and very different from China.
You are right though in that the corporation has a lot of influence. The corporation is easily the defining entity in American life. That said, I think you vastly simplify the complexity of the system if you believe that there is a singular corporate interest that is ruling all. There system is extremely complex and involves not just competing corporate interests, but civil institutions, government institutions, and all manner of complexities. It might very well find its equilibrium of competing interests in some place totally unexpected.
Personally, I am morbidly curious to see how the whole thing turns out. I would kill to be able to look back at this time in history a 100 years from now to see a dispassionate and detached analysis of this era. I personally think that this convergence of technology, communication, and economics is going to produce something no one expects. Will it be good or bad? Eh, who knows. I bet whatever it is, it will at least be very unique.