monday night movie
(TED) Clay Shirky: How social media can make history
extrapolate this out to: the functions of government, education, production of resources, farming, research, scientific discovery, entertainment, policing, military protection, health care, business, the exploration of space, spirituality, whatever…
no more domination by ‘experts’, big business, or any pyramidal hierarchy.
centralized tools, but distributed (decentralized) function and responsibility.
complete transparency and honesty.
the built-in checks and balances of an army of volunteer watchdogs.
and a highly complex global processing of data and decisions: the mastication of ideas through millions of arguments. a rock tumbler to find the core ideas we can agree upon.
this is the only way to go from here, you can’t step back.
a typical response to this idea is: “it would be chaos.”
so follow the metaphor from the human body, the engine of stochasticity reduction.
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and if you missed the link to the David Wilcock: Awake and Aware (Sept 20, 2009) conference, here it is. I realize it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but it left me very reassured in my optimism. I am eager to see the changes coming towards 2012 and beyond.
TED Talks are the best.
In a strange twist of lemon, I just found another TED talk that completely contradicts everything I just postulated. I think/hope what he is talking about only applies to centralized systems:
Evgeny Morozov: How the Internet strengthens dictatorships