neocolonial tells us the informational shape of the Internet Age and its relation to hierarchy (reblogging because I there’s nothing to disagree there)
- Required reading: Situational Assessment 2017
The conflict of the 21st Century is about forming a Collective Intelligence that can outwit and out innovate all of its competitors. The central challenge is to innovate a way of collaborating and cohering individuals that maximally deploys their individual perspectives, capabilities, understandings and insights with each-other.
- This is quite a significant statement. In many ways, we are seeing another phase transition in power that is due to massive interconnectedness flowing down now to the personal level.
- Back in feudal times, information had to be carried physically, either by envoy or by missive. This favoured the rigid hierarchies of that period.
- During the industrial revolution, with the development of the telegraph, then the telephone, we saw power flow to an oligarchic distribution. Key centres of power formed, eventually resulting in the development of the Cathedral. Power is brought dynamically to bear through intermediary institutions.
- Now…
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