The document discusses the concepts of hyperpolitics, hyperconnectivity, hypermimesis, and hyperempowerment. It notes that information spreads rapidly around the world through connectivity and hacking communities. It also describes controversy at Wikipedia where administrators were found to be using a secret mailing list to crack down on perceived threats to their power, angering many editors. It concludes that hyperconnectivity leads to rapid copying of information and then greater empowerment, though this process is not like democracy.

1. Hyperpolitics (American Style) Mark Pesce Honorary Associate University of Sydney [email_address] twitter: mpesce

2. Part One: Hyperconnected

5. ‘ the sapient paradox’

12. ‘ halfway there’

15. 43,000,000,000

17. Part Two: Hypermimesis

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

20. fluid, flexible, mobile, pervasive and inexorable

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

24. ‘ find the others’

26. altruism trumps the ‘virtue of selfishness’

28. ‘ holding the line’

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/

31. Part Three: No Governor

33. ‘ made her nervous’

34. Sharing is the threat.

35. Bullshit.

39. ‘ Um...”

41. Hyperconnectivity begets hypermimesis begets hyperempowerment

44. nothing like democracy

46. Thank You! Mark Pesce [email_address] blog.futurestreetconsulting.com twitter: mpesce 415.533.7643