From Zittrain to Aristotle in 600 words | openDemocracy
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Saved by 3 people (0 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-03-09
- Melmcbride on 2008-03-14 - Tags network , organization , politics , authority , future , internet
- Fmorales on 2008-03-10 - Tags internet , mediascape , people
- Tedperl on 2008-03-09 - Tags communitarian , technofuture , ws007
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JZ's impassioned cry in the face of all these attempts to move problems into the realm of authority is to ``give communities a chance''. JZ's view of the future of the Internet is that it will continue to be assailed by ills of various sorts, from malware to business interests protecting their old way of making bacon. If at every turn we acquiesce and allow the top-down ``solution'', the Internet will have demonstrated its ``self-closing'' property: the open system that shut itself down.
So there's a real weight on the shoulders of the communitarians! The anarchy of the bottom right does not produce much order beyond the small-scale, and is largely parasitic on other orders. Can communities really counter a whole-sale reversion to macro-authority?
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