“The myth that holds that the great corporation is the puppet of the market, the powerless servant of the consumer, is, in fact one of the devices by which its power is perpetuated.” FactsMythConsumersCorporationsServantDevicesPowerlessPuppets Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Organized business has assumed that greater profits would be pretty much of a cure-all, and it has to a major extent ignored the fact that the welfare of business rests upon the welfare of the consumers of a nation; that business or free enterprise will function in a democracy only so long as the democracy functions.” LongFactsWould BeNationsDemocracyGreaterMajorsFunctionProfitCuresConsumersWelfareOrganizedEnterpriseIgnoredFree Enterprise Author:Saul Alinsky
“What defines Web 2.0 is the fact that the material on it is generated by the users (consumers) rather than the producers of the system. Thus, those who operate on Web 2.0 can be called prosumers because they simultaneously produce what they consume such as the interaction on Facebook and the entries on Wikipedia.” FactsProduceMaterialsProducersConsumersInteractionUsersEntryWikipediaWeb 2.0 Book:Globalization: A Basic Text Source: Globalization: A Basic Text