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To: paul_philp who started this subject	3/3/2003 3:10:35 AM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) of 504

People who read my posts over on the FADG know that I preach the nameless 'New Paradigm' emerging in the world. Joi Ito takes a serious whack at trying to talk about one important thread of this paradigm in this essay: joi.ito.com Emergent Democracy By Joichi Ito Conclusion The world needs emergent democracy more than ever. The issues are too complex for representative governments to understand. Representatives of sovereign nations negotiating with each other in global dialog are also very limited in their ability to solve global issues. The monolithic media and its increasingly simplistic representation of the world can not provide the competition of ideas necessary to reach consensus. Emergent democracy has the potential to solve many of the problems we face in the exceedingly complex world at both the national and global scale. The community of toolmakers will build the tools necessary for an emergent democracy if the people support the effort and resist those who try to stifle this effort and destroy the commons. We must open the spectrum and make it available to the people, while resisting increased control of intellectual property, and the implementation of architectures that are not inclusive and open. We must encourage everyone to think for themselves, question authority and participate actively in the emerging weblog culture as a builder, a writer, a voter and a human being with a point of view, active in their local community and concerned about the world. I think Joi is trying to hard to engineer the outcome he values instead of trusting his own concept of competition of ideas. I also think he misses the importance of different order of groups in the networked world, the Nation State isn't the only possible organising principal. However, he covers a lot of valuable territory and is more right than not, IMO. Paul@AsTheParadigmTurns.com

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