The Electronic Herd is a term coined by Thomas Friedman in his book The Lexus and the Olive Tree. The term covers two different sub-groups; Short-horn cattle and Long-horn cattle.
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Famous quotes containing the words electronic and/or herd:
“The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)