http://ifocos.org/2007/01/24/digital-communities-are-very-real/ INSTITUTE FOR THE CONNECTED SOCIETY Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:11:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://ifocos.org/2007/01/24/digital-communities-are-very-real/comment-page-1/#comment-681 Martin G. Smith Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:23:36 +0000 http://ifocos.org/2007/01/24/digital-communities-are-very-real/#comment-681 There is a sense of community growing in areas where one never thought would happen. While there are the usual detractors of what is going on, often by those who seek control, yet often too by those who have not bothered to have a serious look, the movement is there, ever growing. For myself, and my crew, the vistas of knowledge, once hidden behind seemingly unassailable walls have opened to be freely accessible or at the very least be open so that we can look upon it all and wonder. As Arlo Guthrie said so many years ago, ‘It’s a Movement. There will of course at some point be a rationalization of it all, but I suggest that it will not come from those who presume to ‘Own’ the ‘Highway of Light’, it will come from those who diligent toil at doing the necessary work to keep the community working. This revolution was recently described as Anarchic by one analyst, I suggest that if Anarchy means taking responsibility for your own self determination and the incumbent responsibility therein implied – I say LET’S PLAY There is a sense of community growing in areas where one never thought would happen. While there are the usual detractors of what is going on, often by those who seek control, yet often too by those who have not bothered to have a serious look, the movement is there, ever growing.
For myself, and my crew, the vistas of knowledge, once hidden behind seemingly unassailable walls have opened to be freely accessible or at the very least be open so that we can look upon it all and wonder.
As Arlo Guthrie said so many years ago, ‘It’s a Movement.
There will of course at some point be a rationalization of it all, but I suggest that it will not come from those who presume to ‘Own’ the ‘Highway of Light’, it will come from those who diligent toil at doing the necessary work to keep the community working.
This revolution was recently described as Anarchic by one analyst, I suggest that if Anarchy means taking responsibility for your own self determination and the incumbent responsibility therein implied – I say LET’S PLAY

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