I'm still waiting for my browswer plug-in that will generate computer transcriptions of online video. Bonus points if it crowdsources corrections. The video looks really interesting, but I can't watch it at work. Somebody please build a solution to this problem.
Q: "And are you saying that networked soceity people and democracy are incompatible?"<p>A: "Uh, yeah, I don't think they're inherently incompatible but certainly republican democracy with its set of geographical settings, and you know... the power coming from geographical regions and networks, don't work.<p>The great lesson of wikileaks is that global internet networked soceity, and the international order which is mostly run through diplomacy and kind of... people representing states talking to other states, those do not mesh at all well."
nothing surprising that a two plus thousand year old form of societal organization (which emerged to organize small cardinality set of equal peers who themselves were the top of the hierarchical society (oligarchy)) - democracy - and the form that has emerged during recent decades are incompatible.<p>How many 2000 year old things are still actual or fitting well with the modern technologies? Horse races? Sailing? Basics of writing and calculation?