Douglas Rushkoff riffs and rants on 'Personal Democracy'
I've long been a big fan of Douglas Rushkoff. In this keynote "invocation," (courtesy of BlipTV, 8 mins) which opened the second day of the Personal Democracy Forum on June 24, 2008, he argues that there is no such thing as "personal democracy" and genuine democratic discourse can only be participatory and collective. The power to write and publish, he notes, may finally be in the hands of everyone (after centuries of domination by religious and political elites), but real democracy isn't just blogging and commenting, it's treating the entire world as "open source" and remakable by direct participation.
Douglas Rushkoff is the author of ten books on media, values, and society, including Cyberia, Media Virus, Get Back in the Box, and Open Source Democracy. He also made the Frontline documentaries Merchants of Cool and The Persuaders.
I say we create a seperate internet for the global south, in each region perhaps, to develop seperately. We can ship in on hard drives wikipedia to get them started, and maybe documentaries, and MIT's open courseware, and some solar powered mesh networked mobile devices and indoor lighting for which to study by ?
http://maybememe.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/29/1929165-eat-the-light-the...
Am I onto new ideas too soon? Or is the timing just right ?
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