Personal Democracy Forum 2008
Note by Ms, Kathy Gill:
60,000 years ago the genome fixed
the kit: brain, digits, ?
50,000 years - stable
why wasn't NY built 40K years ago? if we had the kit?
"the sapient paradox"
moving from hardware (the kit) to cultural software
eventually reservoir of learning overflowed
civilization moves on to complicated things like culture and law
Jared Diamond reference
cultures along similar lines (latitude) of geography shared
fertile crescent example
civilization 9-10K years ago was innovative.. and then became conservative
destablizing force: gutenburg/printing press
enlightenment - peer review lead to scientific and industrial eras
conservative empires replaced
now we get to mass cities, mass market, mass knowledge
liberalism: freedom capitol, people, labor
The Economist: humanity "halfway there" — half of the world had a mobile phone ... a decade to 1 billion; 4 years to 2b; 18 mo to get to 3rd b; 5.1 billion people in 2010, 2011
enables a different kind of sociability
"software of culture"
we had the web in the west for a decade before we figure out what it's good for
1995 - wikis developed
2001 - wikipedia
SMS - the true carrier of the human network for the rest of the world
dismissed by telecom giants
43B text messages last year
we have a drive to connect and socialize
compared to steam engine modifying human power
50K years of cultural transformation are going to be compressed into about 20.
our peers now number 3.5 billion
whenever any one of us displays new successful behavior in hyper context it is immediately visible and can be adopted
jan chipchase, new scientist, 12 june 2008 - get quote!
fluid, flexible, mobile and pervasive and inexorable
opposite of privacy, secrecy and ownership
every assult, tarrif and law designed to constrain the human network has failed
"great firewall of china" has failed
record companies, movies companies ... tried and failing
band of reporters and bloggers took down the Attorney General of the United States of America
any one would be unthinkable a decade ago
post-modern pontoptican
we can send out a call to find the others
any fringe - noble or diabolical - can be connected. new kind of mob rule.
Liberal Era:
the more info shared the more valued it becomes
alruism trumps the 'virtue of selfishness'
front line of new kind of warfare
wikipedians honestly believe "insufficiently notable" resources out "keeps it pure" which is a conservative impulse.
hyperconnected
"this great game has been exposed" -
see The Register, 4 December 2007
will wikipedians learn how to embrace the chaos?
this is the challenge that will face ALL of us. arrive with increasing empowerment. all of our mass institutions are backed against the same buzzsaw. politics: balanced btwn past that no longer works and a future that looks like chaos.
I was in airport — taking pix at airport & uploading to flickr.
i wanted to share my frustrations of my journey. a photo becomes instantly available. any pretensions to control are revealed as collaposed. sharing is THE threat.
we are being asked to believe that hyperconnectivity will be embraced by politicians and campaigns. somehow, politics will be different.
bullshit
don't believe a word of it. it's clapping for tinkerbell.
there are lovely sentiments from obama about what will do with the network. he cannot control. not with all the kings horses and all the kings men.
fasten your seatbelts into thomas hobbs war .... hyperconnected polity ... hyperempowerment ... cultural equivalent of nuclear exchanges.
power redistributions deal representative democracies out. the future looks nothing like democracy. margaret mead: never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
blog.futurestreetconsulting.com
twitter: mpesce
the kit: brain, digits, ?
50,000 years - stable
why wasn't NY built 40K years ago? if we had the kit?
"the sapient paradox"
moving from hardware (the kit) to cultural software
eventually reservoir of learning overflowed
civilization moves on to complicated things like culture and law
Jared Diamond reference
cultures along similar lines (latitude) of geography shared
fertile crescent example
civilization 9-10K years ago was innovative.. and then became conservative
destablizing force: gutenburg/printing press
enlightenment - peer review lead to scientific and industrial eras
conservative empires replaced
now we get to mass cities, mass market, mass knowledge
liberalism: freedom capitol, people, labor
The Economist: humanity "halfway there" — half of the world had a mobile phone ... a decade to 1 billion; 4 years to 2b; 18 mo to get to 3rd b; 5.1 billion people in 2010, 2011
enables a different kind of sociability
"software of culture"
we had the web in the west for a decade before we figure out what it's good for
1995 - wikis developed
2001 - wikipedia
SMS - the true carrier of the human network for the rest of the world
dismissed by telecom giants
43B text messages last year
we have a drive to connect and socialize
compared to steam engine modifying human power
50K years of cultural transformation are going to be compressed into about 20.
our peers now number 3.5 billion
whenever any one of us displays new successful behavior in hyper context it is immediately visible and can be adopted
jan chipchase, new scientist, 12 june 2008 - get quote!
fluid, flexible, mobile and pervasive and inexorable
opposite of privacy, secrecy and ownership
every assult, tarrif and law designed to constrain the human network has failed
"great firewall of china" has failed
record companies, movies companies ... tried and failing
band of reporters and bloggers took down the Attorney General of the United States of America
any one would be unthinkable a decade ago
post-modern pontoptican
we can send out a call to find the others
any fringe - noble or diabolical - can be connected. new kind of mob rule.
Liberal Era:
the more info shared the more valued it becomes
alruism trumps the 'virtue of selfishness'
front line of new kind of warfare
wikipedians honestly believe "insufficiently notable" resources out "keeps it pure" which is a conservative impulse.
hyperconnected
"this great game has been exposed" -
see The Register, 4 December 2007
will wikipedians learn how to embrace the chaos?
this is the challenge that will face ALL of us. arrive with increasing empowerment. all of our mass institutions are backed against the same buzzsaw. politics: balanced btwn past that no longer works and a future that looks like chaos.
I was in airport — taking pix at airport & uploading to flickr.
i wanted to share my frustrations of my journey. a photo becomes instantly available. any pretensions to control are revealed as collaposed. sharing is THE threat.
we are being asked to believe that hyperconnectivity will be embraced by politicians and campaigns. somehow, politics will be different.
bullshit
don't believe a word of it. it's clapping for tinkerbell.
there are lovely sentiments from obama about what will do with the network. he cannot control. not with all the kings horses and all the kings men.
fasten your seatbelts into thomas hobbs war .... hyperconnected polity ... hyperempowerment ... cultural equivalent of nuclear exchanges.
power redistributions deal representative democracies out. the future looks nothing like democracy. margaret mead: never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
blog.futurestreetconsulting.com
twitter: mpesce
