Apr
8
A call for ideas: S2 and education
April 8, 2003 | 7 Comments
I’ve been asked by The Technology Source to write an article about the Second Superpower ideas and education. TSE goes to teachers and others concerned with the institution of education. Can any of you help me jump start my thinking on this one? My best starting idea is that students and teachers should be blogging and [...]
Apr
8
Assembly rules for strengthening the Second Superpower
April 8, 2003 | 16 Comments
How do we strengthen the Second Superpower? What are the next vital developments we need to make? Are there one or two things which, if accomplished, would enable more rapid and fuller evolution of emergent democracy and the second superpower? Are these spiritual, technical, political, or in our collective mindset?
In ecology there is a sub-field [...]
Apr
8
Kevin Marks’ vigorous rebuttal of Orlowski’s flame of S2
April 8, 2003 | Comments Off
Googlewash? Hogwash.
by Kevin Marks Thursday, April 3, 2003
Andrew Orlowski has written a rant about bloggers ‘googlewashing’ the phrase ’second superpower’.Separating out the bizarre attacks on Joi Ito for eating lunch, his thesis seems to be that ‘A-list bloggers’ have hijacked and neutered the phrase from the Anti-war (or anti-Bush) protesters, and swamped Google with this new [...]
Apr
8
Flames
April 8, 2003 | 3 Comments
Last week Adrew Orlowki flamed The Second Superpower Rears its Beautiful Head. His article mostly made arcane comments about google, but he took the time to trash the piece and its supporters as follows (and see the rebuttal by Kevin Marks, above):
It’s a plea for net users to organize themselves as a “superpower”, and represents a [...]
Apr
8
Puissance
April 8, 2003 | 2 Comments
There are limits to the validity of the term ‘power’ — it sort of implies top-down control and influence, doesn’t it? I think perhaps the French word ‘puissance’ (amplitude) has nuances of meaning which much more accurately describe our growing shared potency. We are synergetically amplifying — ’surging into’ — this new realization of who [...]
Apr
8
The Softer Side of the Second Superpower
April 8, 2003 | 2 Comments
In response to my article on S2, I’ve gotten several critical emails that accuse me of being too soft, too unrealistic. Usually the senders talk about how the Second Superpower doesn’t have enough missiles and such. Well, we may not have missles, but my guess is we definitely have the best massages. And we may [...]