Bruce Sterling is guestblogging on Worldchanging this week. His first provocative post is called "Marry the UN and the Net."
Logically, there ought to be some inventive way to cross-breed the grass-rootsy cheapness, energy and immediacy of the Net with the magisterial though cumbersome, crotchety, crooked and opaque United Nations. Then bride and groom would unite their virtues and overcome those gloomy vices gnawing at their vitals. The global worldchanging multitudes could beat back the darkness of the gathering New World Disorder while swiftly improving the cramped lives of the planet's majority in a beneficent orgy of networked interdependence! Wow!
Update: Alex notes, "Bruce is just one of
the fine folks posting this week to celebrate our
first birthday. There'll be over 20 altogether,
includes folks like Rebecca Blood, Ethan Zuckerman,
Dina Mehta, Danny O'Brien, Anne Galloway, Régine
Debatty, David Weinberger, Meaghan O'Neill, Joi Ito
and Ross Mayfield…. "
