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In response to a Guardian article, "Exploring
the Web", by John Naugthon.
The most exciting thing
about the Net, which few seem to have recognized, is
its potential (once the open-source software has been
developed and made available) to facilitate the
"self-organization" of individuals, "the people", who
make up society, instead of them (us)
being organized by others
for their own purposes and to fit into a
socio-economic order (especially
the nation state, along with the
national and global economies), which is rooted
in mankind's animal nature (unsurprisingly, in view of
what Darwin is supposed to have taught us about human
origins) and therefore not compatible with enlightened
and sustainable human development, or indeed, with our
continued survival on this finite and vulnerable
planet.
Such "self-organization"
will require those wishing to participate
(those preferring to remain in
anonymous mass society, will be free to do so, of
course) having a
"Personal Identity File", over which they will have
complete control and jurisdiction, but which will need
to be subject to some degree (determined by the
individual) of accessibility and verification. I need
to know certain things (yet to be stipulated) about
the people I'm thinking of self-organizing with.
My homepage:
http://www.spaceship-earth.org
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