"The early World Wide Web - Web 1.0 - was all about information. It was a way for people to find pieces of data more easily than ever before. But Web 2.0 is something different. It's about collaboration rather than information. It's about networking, sharing, organizing, reaching out to one another. Our government today is still in 1.0 mode. You can go to SF311.org and get information about trash pickup, road work, streetlight repair. You can go to the Web sites of different government departments and download documents, applications, reports. But we haven't yet reached Government 2.0 - the collaboration stage, in which businesses and social networks are operating today. That's the stage we have to get to in order to innovate our way out of this mess: We have to engage the collective wisdom of people outside of government, rather than just relying, as we always have, on those who work within the monolith." Give me your hands
Show me the door I cannot stand To wait anymore Somebody said Be what you'll be We could be old and cold and dead on the sea But I love you more than words can say I can't count the reasons I should stay Give me some rope Tie me to dream Give me the hope to run out of steam Somebody said it can be here We could be roped up, tied up, dead in a year I can't count the reasons I should stay One by one they all just fade away I'm tied to the wait and sees I'm tired of that part of me That makes up a perfect lie To keep us between But hours turn into days So watch what you throw away And be here to recognize There's another way Give me some rope Tie me to dream Give me the hope to run out of steam Somebody said it can be here We could be roped up, tied up, dead in a year But I love you more than words can say I can't count the reasons I should stay One by one they all just fade away But I love you more than words can say The 88 the88.net "And given the critical role played by tool use in human evolution,...we must understand technology as natural and sacred, not alien and profane."
"...understand technology as a public good - a way to achieve broadly agreed upon societal goals, whether for improved health or cleaner air." "Humans have long been cocreators of the environment they inhabit. Any proposal to fix environmental problems by turning it away from technology risks worsening them by attempting to deny the ongoing coevolution of humans and nature." "The solution to the unintended consequences of modernity is, and has always been, more modernity - just as the solution to the unintended consequences of our technologies has always been more technology. The Y2K computer bug was fixed by better computer programming, not by going back to typewriters. The ozone-hole crisis was averted, not by an end to air-conditioning, but rather by more advanced, less environmentally harmful technologies." "Would we like a planet with wild primates, old-growth forests, a living ocean, and modest rather than extreme temperature increases? Of course we would...Only continued modernization and technological innovation can make such a world possible." |