There's an excellent interview with John Perry Barlow on This Week in Tech from a few years ago where he discusses this: > They're working in this way that jus

There's an excellent interview with John Perry Barlow on This Week in Tech from a few years ago where he discusses this: > They're working in this way that just vastly consumes resources but doesn't actually get much done. I guess I could've seen that coming, if you say the existing institutions of the industrial period are going to collapse, well it's not like they collapse one afternoon and the next day you've got the new Jerusalem in place. It takes a while for them to collapse. Right now you've got this ugly situation in which they're all still occupying the receptor sites of power but not in a position to exercise it in any useful or judicious fashion. And we on the other hand, who saw this coming, have not been able to take the self-organizing systems that we can probably start developing and turn it in to much of anything. http://twit.tv/specials43 http://twit.tv/specials43 Start at around 17:00. For those who don't know, John Perry Barlow is one of the founders of the EFF. The interview is a few years old but still incredibly relevant and worth watching.