Re: why Berlin?

On 05/13/2011 10:47 AM, Henry Story wrote:

> Ah that is to misunderstand the Berlin wall.

ACK. I remember that day in November where I was heading to work (in 
Bielefeld) and at the train station free newspapers everywhere were 
distributed and everyone was celebrating.

Think of the fall of the berlin wall as of the egypt revolution without 
twitter, facebook ;-)

The people of the GDR united under the famous slogan "Wir sind das Volk" 
(We are the people) which effectively resulted in a regime being left in 
the cold.

  This is what I call the transnational moment, that is repeating its 
pattern in quite some places ATM. The fundamental rule is simple "If 
nobody follow, the leaders are gone".

Now the federated, decentralised web could bring that level of awareness 
and self determination to even more people. What we effectively should 
do is stripping politics and policy from the tools, leaving only the 
bare, neutral, commoditized technology on the table.

This is IMHO the ultimate democratization - Open Standards with no 
strings attached (think patent royalties, exclusive standard setting) 
and competing implementations lead the way.


Jan

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Open Source Evangelist. Open Standards Fundamentalist.
Software Patents worst nightmare. Decentralizing whatever exists.
Citizen of the first Transnational Republic

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