Bits or bankers, wars or wall street, ecology, equality, energy or education … All of the crucial struggles of our time are at their core a single struggle: A battle between the 19th and 21st centuries.
Radical, new social and perceptive systems are emerging from the net that undermine all of the power structures of the previous era. The few that profited the most when information was scarce, slow, and centralized know that their authority is severely threatened in our networked culture.
What looks like countless unrelated struggles is in fact a single conflict: a newborn baby being strangled by its own umbilical cord.
