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Future Tense — Participatory Applications

May 15, 2006

But so far, my whole focus in this series of arti­cles has been on tech­nol­ogy. How­ever, tech­nol­ogy itself is under­go­ing a rad­i­cal shift, and I would ven­ture to say that we are now enter­ing a new era of cyber­net­ics. Tim O’reilly, in his descrip­tion of Web 2.0 said that The cen­tral prin­ci­ple behind the suc­cess of the giants born […]

Politics and the Net: What about the software?

September 17, 2003

Wired News reports that Gen­eral Wes­ley Clark entered the race due largely to online prompts to do so. This is another exam­ple of how the net is affect­ing pol­i­tics in a rad­i­cally new way. This rep­re­sents an inter­est­ing twist in what has already been a fas­ci­nat­ing year in terms of the net’s influ­ence on the polit­i­cal process… […]