Mark Pesce on Mesh Networks and the Future

Mark Pesce’s now famous Keynote speech for Web Directions is a must read for everyone.

“The net regards hierarchy as a failure, and routes around it.”

“In a future which looks increasingly like the present, there is no center anywhere, no locus of authority, no controlling power ordering our daily lives. There are no governments, no institutions, no businesses that look anything like the limited liability enterprises born in the Netherlands five hundred years ago. Instead, there are groupings, networks within the network, that come together around a project or ideology, a shared sense of salience –”

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