Rion D'Luz wrote: > Hi: > > Your insight went totally over (around) my head. > Plz elaborate to below:
> So, fact is: > an .org has a primary mission and its secondary one is to ensure its own > survival? No the 'fact' is that an existing organization's primary mission is its survival. It is an observation about social overhead. >> But it isn't a fact. Our technology and culture have progressed. We are >> not fully conscious of the new reality, > which is what, exactly? That the need for an org is diminished, or the > need for a group to have the same ability to be organized has? Other possibilities have arrived. > can you cite a couple or provide URL? Would this apply equally to business > as to NGO's or (say laabor) movements? Here you go. See the book "Here Comes Everybody" (2008). Also this video (2005): http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html The examples range widely, but they are popping up everywhere today: Subway bombing reporting done on location, by nonprofessionals. Photographs with keywords + upload + index + public domain waiver = a resource impossible to create with professional photographers. Distributed banking using the same algorithm which banks use, but with friend-to-friend-to-friend credit rather than client-to-bank-to-bank-to-client credit. What the heck, I'd even cite the Linux kernel vs. the Microsoft kernel. > Honestly, your observations tie in to a deep-seated interest i have in > both admiring (for it's efficiency and management skills) and > loathing (pave the earth) modern business organizational practices; I agree, it is important. I like free market capitalism--the company has drastically improved our productivity--but it is probably only a local maxima for society's productive capacity. The company is a tool which may not be as necessary as it has been for a few generations. [Beware! Editorial content: worse, our politicians seem to be rapidly slipping toward socialism. Are we doomed to repeat last century's mistakes instead of getting on with this century's possibilities? Disclaimer: I was trained as an engineer, not educated in the liberal arts. YMMV. I try to keep an open mind]. > if one concludes that their policies logically follow. > (which is generally a group of A-types playing zero-sum games or > bureaucrats cooking books to look better than they are) I have opinions, but I'll just say that fraud, politics, and debt have completely obscured that issue, especially recently. -- Anthony Carrico
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