Fournier: Most of the internet came out of collaboration, not the desire to get wildly rich.
Comment from the floor: You have the basis here for the faculty of a different kind of university…
Three major areas we’re trying to bring together: 1) emerging software tools; 2) independent media; 3) economic leverage by changing the disfunctional social game rules… within the context of 4) a whole systems view of the world. Marriage of social operating system experiments now meeting a software culture that is operating under essentially the same impulse. Potential common denominator for all these “different” social movements is the software we use to define our different and overlapping agendas. Alan Kay’s polling work in the 80s shows supermajorities in the US that want amazingly reasonable things.
