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The Comity of the Commons
The Web changes everything (Everything = Everything).Embrace it. Totally. Or else.
—Tom Peters1
If the Internet is a place, what kind of place is it? Remember: (1) all metaphors are wrong, and (2) we have to use them, because we understand everything metaphorically. So let’s be clear with ourselves that the Internet is not really a place. (Nor is it a printing press, plumbing, a theater, a shipping system, or any other frame we use to think and talk about the Net.) But if we choose to prefer place to other metaphors, what kind of real-world place would we prefer?
How about a market?
Well, most of what we call markets aren’t places either. We ...
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