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Posts from January 2009

Hard Karma

Bruce Sterling’s State of The World 2009 is one of the most amazing things I’ve read online in a long time. It touches on politics, economics, environmental/global warming, humans/social topics, and The Commons/Copyright. Some of it was really scary, some really exciting, some really interesting. All of it, however, was different to anything else I’d [...]


On Anarchy

Anarchy’s got a really bad wrap. There’s a lot of FUD, and general misinformation about the meaning of the term. In Decentralism: Where It Came From–Where Is It Going?, I found a great section discussing Anarchy:-

“Examining the root meaning of ‘anarchy,’ we find that ‘an’ means no or none, ‘archy’ means rulership. Thus ‘anarchy’ means [...]