Ethan Zuckerman, fellow Berkmanite and founder of GeekCorps, has written a powerful essay on democracy and technology, which is in part a reflection on Joi Ito’s paper on Emergent Democracy and my paper on Second
Superpower.
Ethan’s essay deserves to be widely
read. Ethan asks “Is there room for the third world in the
second superpower?” Ethan discusses how web dialogue–which is
now admittedly carried on mainly among a very small part of the world
population, might grow to encompass the real 6.3 billion person world.
