Mark Pesce Respins John Gilmore

Mark uses the pre-web language, a la reengineering and knowledge management, to recast Gilmore’s aphorism. Gilmore said,

The net regards censorship as a failure, and routes around it.

Mark Pesce tries a new spin, in a very interesting (and too long to provide a precis for here, especially on my vacation) post:

[from Mob Rules (The Law of Fives) | the human network]

The net regards hierarchy as a failure, and routes around it.

My pass:

The web regards centralization as a failure, and routes around it… by moving to the edge.

But I like the gist of his commentary, although I would use the term ‘us’, ‘we’, or ‘the people’ instead of ‘mob’, which sounds more like something menacing, while taking control of our own communications and identity shouldn’t be cast that way, at least by us. The others, the Centroids, will do that on their own.

[pointer Matt Balara]