8 Ideas That Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
Hugh Macleod writes that Ben Hammersley’s presentation at Les Blogs was the best of the lot:
The highlight of the show for me was Ben Hammersley’s amazing speech:
8 Ideas That Will Revolutionize the 21st Century (and blogging isn’t one of them).
1. Information wants to be free (vs. copyright).
2. Zero distance (vs. borders).
3. Mass amateurisation (vs.censorship).
4. More is much more. (vs. network blocking).
5. True names (vs. identity cards & databases).
6. Viral behaviour (vs. more network blocking).
7. Everything is personal (vs. everything is trackable).
8. Ubiquitous computing (no privacy).What? Blogging isn’t on the list?
No Silly, says Ben, blogging isn’t one of them, blogging is all of them.
Perfect.
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Except for the information wanting to be free part. “Creativity wants to be authored” ought to be the maxim, at least to my mind. Monetarily free creativity I can imagine. But authoritatively free I cannot–or I haven’t been able to think of a real precedent for a culture or society of that kind. After all, why do good works if a) no one sees you do them and b) there’s no money or title or prize to show others in the abstract that you do good works for a living? I’ve rattled on about this more on my site. I think generally the desire for prestige and influence motivate creativity and that creators accept money instead or as payment in part because wealth and the things that go with it betoken status.