演进的次序

部落最先出现,然后是等级制度,竞争性的市场成型是再后的事,直到信息和传播技术发达的今天,合作性的网路组织才真正开始成为重要角色;国家,市场,公民社会的关系也因此要重新平衡。

组织形式

部落,制度性机构,市场,网路,这是兰德David Ronfeldt对社会组织形式的分类(PDF)。

水,信息

小波浪苦恼地问大波浪: ”为什么你这样大?而我却这样小?“ (苦恼由没有清楚存在的本质而生。) ”那本质是什么呢?“小波浪问。 ”你们都是水啊。“ (蔡志忠的《禅说》,是那次归程唯一的行装。)

Wheeler’s Questions

You have met him in the winter of 1984. Twenty years later, sitting by the Spieker Pool, you are again […]

Thinking Web

Thinking its enormity, complexity and global reach. Bernardo Huberman from HP Lab said that statistical physics model has helped to […]

空白

也不完全是空白。

The Calculus of Political Power

From one Orkut’s community (self-organizing networks) you were introduced to this post by Mitch Ratcliffe.

Shifting of the power paradigm?

Capra wrote this in his 1996’s book: “the web of life.” “Power, in the sense of domination over others, is […]

Maturana’s two questions

“What takes place in the phenomenon of perception?” “What is the organization of the living?”