Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 814
March 8, 2009
The Great Restructuring
*Restructuring: after your arms and legs are smashed off with hammers, you
miraculously learn how to wriggle toward prosperity on your belly.
*Y'know, I haven't had a real job in ages, but now even
the people with real jobs don't have real jobs.
*If even half the stuff on this list is true, we're in for
such an extremely wild ride that some kind of Warren G. Harding
"return to normalcy" is surely waiting in the wings for us.
We'll just hunker down in our new slums and put cardboard
over the
*Meanwhile, in the rapidly globalizing rag trade
*American retailers desperate to foist their inferior goods on the British!
Pick up your skirts and run for the trenches!
Inspire or die! (((The British slogan in the 1950s was "Export or Die," and, as
Brian Aldiss once pointed out, "we died.")))
Ten years ago the UK fashion retail market changed out of all recognition, with the arrival of Zara and Mango and the growth of H&M.
The impact wasn’t simply the arr
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