 The narrative of The Postmodern Condition moves along two temporal periods, one being modernity and its adherence to certain metanarratives or means of organizing society’s chaotic mix of different language games, the other being the computerization of knowledge that occurred from the 1950s forward. This would become what is now called the “information” or “knowledge” economy, and Lyotard is one of those political thinkers who recognized a changeover from state-centered forms of liberalism to the neo-liberal, laissez-faire deregulation of economies just before the Reagan and Thatcher victories in the United States and United Kingdom. This computerization of knowledge has not just sped up how knowledge is transferred, but what we think knowledge is, especially as the sciences are put almost wholly in service of supplying patents and know-how for corporations. Lyotard avers that the old model of the learning of knowledge as a means for making citizens and free agents of individuals is falling away as knowledge is exteriorized from any particular individual knowers, and what is considered knowledge will only be that which can be translated into computerizable language. “We can predict that anything in the constituted body of knowledge that is not translatable in this way will be abandoned”, he writes, “and that the direction of new research will be dictated by the possibility” (Postmodern Condition, 4). Where before nation-states scrambled in competition for resources, what is now at stake are “informational commodit[ies]”, small packets of information to be gained and traded under conditions where maximal efficiency is given absolute privilege (Postmodern Condition, 5). Universities, then, will soon give up their roles in providing training (what the Germans call Bildung), instead preparing their students for becoming managers and creating these packets of information. No doubt, Lyotard was not the only one to see these changes coming, but his prescience is notable nonetheless. At the same time, since multinational corporations are best suited to commodify information at vast scales, the nation-state will lose its central political place and indeed purposely abdicate its role in managing national economies. This reduction of knowledge to that which is easily translatable and understandable, of course, is what drives globalization, and the leading economies, as Lyotard notes, will not be those engaged in manufacturing traditional commodities but instead those created and utilized through modern computing. 