Doc's comments about forts and above and below water lines made me think about where this is all going.  People, one by one, one at a time, are going to see, then experience, then feel what it means to "function in a flow" of constant information.

It will create a binary sort of condition - either people will want someoone else to direct or guide them (which many people will want, as we have been raised and educated in such a system), or they'll figure out that they are going to have to adjust and adapt.

The flow of information, like the world, will just keep going - it won't care.

Herere's Doc, citing David Weinberger:


While it's way cool that Mark Cuban can say what the fuck he pleases, he serves as an example only to fellow pyramid-topping Eye of Horus CEOs.

We'll have blown up Fort Business when it's safe for bricks below the eye to say what the fuck they please. As Vice President Cheney demonstrated in that last link.

To repeat what Dr. Weinberger wrote in TCM,

The Web isn¹t primarily a medium for information, marketing, or sales. It¹s a world in which people meet, talk, build, fight, love, and play. In fact, the Web world is bigger than the business world and is swallowing the business world whole. The vague rumblings you¹re hearing are the sounds of digestion.

The change is so profound that it¹s not merely a negation of the current situation. You can¹t just put a big "not" in front of Fort Business and say, "Ah, the walls are coming down." No, the true opposite of a fort isn¹t an unwalled city.

It's a conversation.