Turn in the wheel of world revolution

New Straits Times | December 11, 2004| | Copyright

Kamrul Idris
New Straits Times
12-11-2004
Turn in the wheel of world revolution
Byline: Kamrul Idris
Edition: Main/Lifestyle; 2*
Section: Saturday Forum
Column: Overview

IT was never what Mao had in mind, but the purchase of IBM's personal computer division by a Chinese company on Wednesday was a turn in the wheel of world revolution that no one can afford to ignore.

Big Blue, a technology icon and co-creator of the PC, gave in to a dialectic as relentless as the one thought up by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the 1840s.
Only this time it wasn't the struggle of the labouring classes that was ...

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