Packy McCormick

That is, of course, the argument of every acquired CEO, that the combined entities can do so much more, so much faster, than the company could do on its own.

Summing up: Banks’s conception of the Culture is driven by three central ideas. First, there is the thought that, in the future, basic problems of social organization will be given essentially technocratic solutions, and so the competition between cultures will be based upon their viral qualities, not their functional attributes. Second, there is... See more