A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
<rant>These little ramblings on the future of corporations in 2100 is no better than discussions around the number of angels atop a pin head. All of these economic references without any ground in the reality of a finite world annoy me to no end. It's time both for academics and bloggers together to get in touch with reality : the planet is finite. Resources are limited. We'll be running out of them fast. All common -- and many less common, like in this article -- economic theories written by people ignoring the second law of thermodynamics (or as a physicist said "[these economists] can't even change a tyre") are bunk. Yes, I think that only hard-core environmentalists are looking in the right direction, and we're a bunch of fools. The Titanic is sinking but the orchestra's still playing. </rant><p>tl;dr: I'm extremely pessimistic about the future. This sort of happy, dreamy nonsense gets on my nerves.