A Hundred Years of Chaos
Because social effects lag behind technological ones by decades, real revolutions don’t involve an orderly transition from point A to point B. Rather they go from A through a long period of chaos and only then reach B. In that chaotic period, the old systems get broken long before the new ones become stable.
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For a hundred years after it started, the printing press broke more things than it fixed, plunging Europe into a period of intellectual and political chaos that ended only in the 1600s.
From Here Comes Everybody, the excellent new book by friend and former teacher Clay Shirky.
June 29th, 2008 at 11:15 am
I’m a big fan of you and your projects. I especially like the locality and community focus. I have been trying to promote the use of neighbornode, and can not access or find any information on how to access and setup the community bulletin board. I wonder if you might be willing to help? We are going to be given a grant by the City of Portland to provide a kiosk around which we would like to spread community run and owned wi-fi. Please let me know if you or someone you know would be willing to help. Thank you and keep up the great work!