In this TED video, Zittrain shows that despite the perception of the internet as a cold unfriendly place, the exact opposite can be true.
This is a very informative talk about the internet from a voluntaryist perspective. The social dynamic of the internet is a framework that we can use in the world offline. There are untold instances of people helping online in numerous ways, motivated by their own internal passion instead of money. The internet is anarchy, a realm with no rulers where you can choose the information, tools, resources and people to enhance your reality. The ‘crowd’ is making the stagnant centralized status quo increasingly obsolete. With the ability to reach each other in mobile P2P networks with data and video, we have the ability to convey our message directly to the ‘crowd’, bypassing traditional establishment media outlets. The peer to peer, open source, voluntaryist, decentralized nature of the internet is a positive trend that should be applied in the real world.
