Bruce Sterling's looks at the underground economy in Belgrade, describing it as black globalization – fuse of globalization and the black market.Real business happens to fakes even when global enterprises open their shops locally. gGobalism extends well beyond easy,offhand intellectual property thefts like videotaping first-run films and burning them onto DVD. It commandeers the manufacturing, distribution, and business infrastructure in a parasitic rejection of the global order that is the engine of our collective future. The folks who made my shoes have everything it takes to make excellent footwear. Yet they choose to make counterfeits. It's a brave, new, destructive world of manufacturing and marketing:
Bruce- fakes are there everywhere – From NY toLondon to Dubai to Sydney.
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