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Clay Shirky Rebuts Jarod Lanier’s “Digital Maoism”

June 10, 2006 in Main Page | No comments

… and does so rather well, I think.

The concluding paragraph from the rebuttal is excerpted below, and in my opinion points to the large, daunting and exciting challenge ahead for us all,

In a first world (the relatively affluent western world wherein people have computers and there is widespread access to the Internet) … a world that has been streamlined and made efficient to bring us material affluence that allows us to stuff our garages and basements to bursting while millions in the third world suffer and die for want of clean water and effective basic medicines … we face a situation where access to information and the ability to connect and communicate can (and may) make possible real changes to oligarchic or plutocratic control of benumbed befuddled people who are afraid of somehow "not having enough".

It is said that "knowledge is power".