Beyond Crowds and Clouds: Why We Need Individual Freedom and Powe

1. Been prepping for a long time
2. Phil, free software, 1993
3. Programmers and users — the connection between the two
   1. Stallman: "free software is a matter of the users' freedom"
   2. Itch-scratching & sharing.
   3. Construction. (Back to this later.)
4. Individuality
   1. Humans are all different. Even twins.
   2. The human diaspora
   3. What each brings to the tables we all make
5. Originality. What makes us human
6. Authority: Me & Tim: "We are all authors of each other."
7. Knowledge is who we are. Not what we have.
8. Autonomy
   1. Chris Hedges in Empire of Illusion: "The single most important quality needed to resist evil is autonomy. As Immanuel Kant wrote, moral autonomy is possible only through reflection, self-determination , and the courage not to cooperate."
   2. FOSS programmers are autonomous
9. The continuing Industrial Age
   1. Industry won. Check your surname.
   2. The flywheels still spin — e.g. regulatory capture
   3. Loyalty cards.
10. Now the Net
    1. Geek designed and built
    2. URLs are Unix file paths
    3. NEA
11. Meanwhile, the spectacle continues. See "Saving the Net" in LJ, Nov 2005.
12. Social is good... but only takes ya so far. See Cluetrain
13. We think Facebook and Twitter are "social." They're corporate.
14. Platforms vs. Ecosystems. Gmail vs. Facebook
15. Long Now, civilization diagram
16. Construction again
    1. Magazine arch, Vernacular arch
    2. High Road construction, Low Road construction
17. Generativity
18. The Mobile case
    1. iPhone vs. Google Phone
    2. What is the open "crowd of one"?