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 organizing information, finding facts will become I'm an American who has moved to Canada largely because I can no longer stand the cannibalisation of the "public good" in favor of security and profit. However, I'd also caution against looking at the web in the same light as what's happening in the US. The forces acting on the web are much lower level than democratization - they are impulse feedback systems within a complex non-linear system,with information flows taking the place of energy. Such flows seek the paths of least resistance, which means that attempts to place boundaries on the web can be achieved in the short term, but usually at the cost of that information flowing around the fences in the long term. The US is entering a particularly troubling phase, a time of corporate fascism and imperial ambitions that's been building for decades, but it is also becoming increasingly reactionary and fundamentalist ... meaning that creatives are leaving the country in droves. Given that the chief export of America is its creativity, this ultimately does not bode well for the ability of the country to sustain its self-destructive behavior. On the web especially, creativity has far more currency than paper wealth. -- Kurt Cagle http://www.understandingxml.com 
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