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When the technologies that are shaping the new millennium are considered, it is far more likely that we will see not one world government, but microgovernment, or even conditions approaching anarchy.
James Dale Davidson, Lord William Rees-Mogg • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Musing on the perennial suspicion of mass media—as a dystopian deluge of details that dulls the mind and deadens the will—Foucault instead insists upon the proliferation of information and its inherent importance for curiosity.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
“end of history illusion.”
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
hence valuable. Anyone who could cast a
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The means of circulation are algorithmic, and they are not subject to democratic accountability or control. Hyperconnectivity has in fact further concentrated power over the means of circulation in the hands of the giant platforms that design and control the architectures of visibility.
ROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
fell beneath notice.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
David Weinberger, the smartest person in the room is the room itself: the network that connects everyone and their knowledge.3