Hyperpolitics (American Style)

Slide 1: Hyperpolitics (American Style) Mark Pesce Honorary Associate University of Sydney mark@markpesce.com twitter: mpesce

Slide 2: Part One: Hyperconnected

Slide 5: ‘the sapient paradox’

Slide 12: ‘halfway there’

Slide 15: 43,000,000,000

Slide 17: Part Two: Hypermimesis

Slide 19: “Basically, if a way of changing, fixing or improving a popular model of mobile phone is discovered by any of the hacking communities around the world on Monday, by Friday it’s on the streets of Ghana.” Jan Chipchase New Scientist, 12 June 2008

Slide 20: fluid, flexible, mobile, pervasive and inexorable

Slide 21: “It has been repeatedly proved that information blocking is like walking into a dead end.” Wang Guoqing Vice-Minister of Information, PRC

Slide 24: ‘find the others’

Slide 26: altruism trumps the ‘virtue of selfishness’

Slide 28: ‘holding the line’

Slide 29: Controversy has erupted among the encyclopedia's core contributors, after a rogue editor revealed that the site's top administrators are using a secret insider mailing list to crackdown on perceived threats to their power. Many suspected that such a list was in use, as the Wikipedia "ruling clique" grew increasingly concerned with banning editors for the most petty of reasons. But now that the list's existence is confirmed, the rank and file are on the verge of revolt. The Register, 4 December 2007 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/04/wikipedia_secret_mailing/

Slide 31: Part Three: No Governor

Slide 33: ‘made her nervous’

Slide 34: Sharing is the threat.

Slide 35: Bullshit.

Slide 39: ‘Um...”

Slide 41: Hyperconnectivity begets hypermimesis begets hyperempowerment

Slide 44: nothing like democracy

Slide 46: Thank You! Mark Pesce mark@markpesce.com blog.futurestreetconsulting.com twitter: mpesce 415.533.7643