http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/30/opinion/30FRIE.html
New York Times Op Ed
January 30, 2001
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Cyber-Serfdom
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Then there was the panel about the 21st-century
corporation, during which participants described this age of
digital Darwinism in chilling terms: The key to winning in
business today is adapt or die, get wired or get killed, work
24 hours a day from everywhere or be left behind. Finally,
during the question time, Howard Stringer, chairman of
Sony America, stood up and said: "Doesn't anyone here
think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all
competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or
music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off."
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