{"id":111,"date":"2002-12-09T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2002-12-09T14:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2002-12-09T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2002-12-09T14:30:32","slug":"decentralization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"Decentralization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supernova conference organized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulver.com\/supernova\/schedule.html\">Kevin Werbach<\/a>, is getting started this morning in California.<br \/>\nThe shindig is about decentralization &#8212; open spectrum, weblogs, WiFi, web services &#8212; new forms of decentralized communications, emergent social organization, and grass-roots content that will take down the dinosaurs of industrial bureaucracy and the behemoths of mass media and telecom.  I have friends and colleagues at the conference; it sounds like the discussions are going be interesting and clever and fun.<br \/>\nThe innovation up for discussion is real.<br \/>\nAnd the optimistic technological determinism is giving me the willies.<br \/>\nBecause, while we&#8217;re developing and promoting all of this cool decentralized software and communications, there are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>people using centralized money to maintain and increase oligopolies on content and communications\n<li>people using centralized power trying to turn our country into a totalitarian state, with secret trials and searches without warrants and digital surveillance departments headed by convicted felons\n<li>people using decentralized power trying to kill people who look like us, trying to destabilize our society, and succeeding<\/ul>\n<p>Meanwhile, we&#8217;re feeling smart, and socially connected, and politically pretty powerless.<br \/>\nWe need organization, with all of the decentralized and centralized tools and methods available to us, online and on the ground, and we need it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supernova conference organized by Kevin Werbach, is getting started this morning in California. The shindig is about decentralization &#8212; open spectrum, weblogs, WiFi, web services &#8212; new forms of decentralized communications, emergent social organization, and grass-roots content that will take down the dinosaurs of industrial bureaucracy and the behemoths of mass media and telecom. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=111\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Decentralization&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-1N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}