Humberto Maturana: "I think there is a fundamental alienation to which we are prone: the search for truth, the search for the absolute, the desire for ultimate stability through the denial of change; the desire that the world should be in the manner that satisfies our desires, and as such and with respect to that, stable. ... But how do we act? We invent systems of consensual stability that we claim ...
Came across this interesting passage from Benkler's The Wealth of Networks: "Technology alone does not, however, determine social structure. The introduction of print in China and Korea did not induce the kind of profound religious and political reformation that followed the printed Bible and disputations in Europe. But technology is not irrelevant, either. Luther's were not the first disputations nailed to a church door. Print, however, made it practically feasible ...
Strong people don't need strong leaders. -Ella Baker According to Wael Ghonim (@Ghonim), the Egyptian Google exec who is emerging as the most recognizable face of the resistance movement in Egypt, the activists who planned the Egyptian uprising "designed their movement to be anonymous and faceless, without a clear leader." In her piece on Wael Ghonim and the Egyptian uprising (which touches on the role the net played in encouraging ...