[MD] facebook

[gav]

hiya all,
been thinking about what's going on and the likelihood of something new evolving to replace the old system....
in all likelihood the meltdown will bottom out at some stage and then we will have an even more imbalanced scenario: wealth concentrated in even fewer hands than before....cos who else is buying these panic sold shares, other than the very rich?
anyway whatever particular shape the crisis takes next we have some new tools at our disposal that we can use to organise/communicate independent of the current kafka-esque system.
facebook is interesting. yes there is a lot of twaddle on it but at its heart is an emerging web - an ecology of individuals, unmediated by any power structures.
the degrees of separation twixt folk are diminishing. if you have a thousand friends who all have a thousand friends themselves then you are one degree of separation away from hundreds of thousands of people (allowing for friend overlap).
whether it is facebook or some other networking tool the upshot is an efficient means of coordinating people, on relatively large levels....ie perticipative democracy becomes feasible.
anyway just dreamin



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