"...It's important to understand technology has having grown to hold tremendous power over the functioning of society. This technology is not some neural force that simple is driven down the narrow and linear path of progress. Technology is a social production and the result of many conflicting factors and forces. It has come to take on a quality of a legal and judicial system, the laws which define the world through which the possible is demarcated. (Lessig) A famous example of this is the conflict between the legal conception of copyright and property and file sharing systems such as gnutella. The legal system says that the social ownership of music is strictly forbidden but multitude has created technological systems that make the legal system impotent. This transformation of the functioning of power has profound implications for the possibility of liberation. Instead of needing to seize or eliminate the power of capital and the state there is the possibility that we can create the world where their power ceases to be centrally relevant..."FROM http://www.anarchogeek.com/archives/000001.html AND "...In the past the struggle for liberation was over who controls the legal system, which was often determined by who had the potential to exert actual or potential coercive force. Today we are seeing a shift to where to a greater extent the level and form of technology is defining the power dynamics and outcomes of social conflict..."AND "...The existence of the internet and almost all the software which has driven the libratory parts of the information revolution were developed out of the free software school. The most complicated and diverse technological communication system in human history could never have been created by proprietary corporate model of development. This is our fundamental advantage when we struggle against corporations over the creation of the technological infrastructure that will underpin society in the era of globalization..."AND "...It is through the development of new technology, creatively pushing the cutting edge in directions that undermine the existing power structures, that the real potential radical power of technology can be realized. My work as an activist is to create and get activists and social movements to use the communications and information technology more effectively than those who want to horde the wealth of our planet and society in the hands of a small elite.
