The one thing that stands out for me from the WikiLeaks debacle is just how much the ‘old order’ is resisting the new. One group that has had to come out into the daylight are the diplomats who are berating Wikileaks for not playing the game according to their old rules – saying one thing in public and another in private. Their resistance to this seismic shift in thinking, equivalent to the Enlightenment when reason started to prevail over intuition and superstition, is rather pointless as they are going to have to adapt to it in one way or another.

Obviously, the only real solution to maintaining the old order of things is to take down (and away from people) this hyperlinked interconnected thing we call the Internet.

The diplomats and other agents of the established order .. the general societal hierarchy .. arguably do not know how to adapt. let alone wanting to do so.