IMHO, this is potentially the most impactful post published here; not because of what is said, but rather what’s omitted. While the rather mild assertion that fundamental cultural traits here in America may benefit the industrial-to-knowledge era paradigm shift going on now, it’s the deep and prospectively controversial questions that arise around the shift’s outcomes which make this post so noteworthy.

At a time when the majority of capital is held by so few and has been used to purchase so much influence over the democratic process, yet simultaneously the import of capital-as-power is being so significantly challenged by a multitude of openly post capitalism, sharing and peer-2-peer experimentations, its the outcomes of competing network constructs/concepts that prompt really big questions. Again, IMHO, how these specific ‘network issues’ play out which will determine the future we will arrive at!

My work is centered on creating future knowledge-intrinsic networks based on many of the virtuous tenants one would draw from this post. And, I firmly believe in the spirit, if not the ‘Democracy in America’ references inferred here. Thank you for a very thought-provoking post.