participatory

This post by Mark Pesce http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=39 was really cool for all the futurists out there, me included, the idea of a pervasive network linking the community outside of the realm of telco's etc was a very exciting idea - that and peer production and the power of the mob... Rheingold'esque


A real world example of this popped up in this interview with Lawrence Lessig...



Lawrence re-iterates the rising wave of peer production as a powerful force to capture the detail of money politics in this instance but I would argue of citizen participation in general. The tools of social networks and collaborative spaces like wiki's, blogs and forums, cell/mobile phones provide we the people the organising tools like never before. The ability to organize in physical and online spaces with thousands of like mind individuals across socio-economic and geographic boundaries.

Let the participation begin!