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HMM: ?The Distributed ?Party of We? Is Already In Control.? I don?t think that?s quite right. I t?

By Glenn Reynolds

HMM: “The Distributed ‘Party of We’ Is Already In Control.” I don’t think that’s quite right. I think that claims that “code trumps law” are premature, at least. Power, ultimately, grows out of the barrel of a gun, not a modem.

On the other hand, there is a certain Army of Davids quality to the analysis: “This really is a moment when centralized top-down legacy systems are coming into conflict with distributed, decentralized, bottom-up systems — and not understanding them at all.” That’s clearly true.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 05, 2011 (boomark / email).