{"id":2659,"date":"2008-02-25T21:44:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T04:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2659"},"modified":"2008-02-25T22:03:30","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T05:03:30","slug":"do-you-want-to-understand-what-web-20-means-in-your-own-life-on-the-internet-socrates-would-have-lived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2659\/do-you-want-to-understand-what-web-20-means-in-your-own-life-on-the-internet-socrates-would-have-lived\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you want to understand what Web 2.0 means in your own life? On the internet, Socrates would have lived"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just wrote this in a comment to Kevin Tomlinson<\/a>, but it’s important, so I want to address it in the larger arena:<\/p>\n

On the internet, everything is Kevlar.<\/p>\n

This is for real, and it’s a lesson people are slowly learning all over the globe:<\/p>\n

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  1. Muscle power accumulates, brain power does not. A group of people is no smarter than its smartest member, and the sclerosis imposed by group decision-making will tend to make a typical group seem to behave as though it were dumber than its dumbest member.\n<\/li>\n
  2. Groups cannot interdict the flow of information, so there is no longer any way to prevent most of the people on earth from discovering anything they wish to know. The middle-men who have been disintermediated first were the people who wanted to prevent the other members of their groups from gaining free access to the truth.\n<\/li>\n
  3. Even when they manage to cohere, groups have no power where they cannot amass muscles or accumulate weapons.\n<\/li>\n
  4. In consequence, any competent individual can take on and defeat any group of people on the internet, no matter how large it might be.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Ergo, on the internet, Socrates would have lived.<\/p>\n

    This is the triumph of the Greek ideal, an amazing, world-changing accomplishment.
    \n<\/p>\n

    Technorati Tags: blogging<\/a>, disintermediation<\/a>, technology<\/a><\/p>\n

    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I just wrote this in a comment to Kevin Tomlinson, but it’s important, so I want to address it in the larger arena: On the internet, everything is Kevlar. This is for real, and it’s a lesson people are slowly learning all over the globe: Muscle power accumulates, brain power does not. 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