hi david
revised version of email i sent to david pogue
generally i find what you do to be refreshingly playful and honest and insightful and enjoy it with a smile on my face but your twitter article and video got my attention
link to original david pogue nytimes article
i was working on this as a tweet but twitter went down as i was sending it
missed mark @Pogue got bull not bullseye -twitter also social communications tool 4 future you/we/me building open trust society
and here is a little more behind what i was trying to put in the tweet – which is always challenging at best so here goes
if you had been to the SocCOMM.com event last tuesday that jeff pulver produced you would have gotten some insight and incite into the dynamics and potential of twitter as a tool for building a new society built on trust – as far as i can tell we are in the middle of a systemic meltdown due to a failure of trust and failure of the top down management system that we have been repeating since before forever -
the point is maybe better expressed in
a society built on fear and distrust serves its masters/leaders a society built on trust serves its people
we are in a social revolution that is much like the frog in slow boiling water – the social communications social media social sculpture that we find ourselves in with twitter and facebook and other social constructions are building a future built on trust that many of our present and past leaders/masters of the world don’t want – they understand the power of fear and the fear of power and the power of not belonging and the power to manipulate people with their agenda/propaganda
it is said the trade of kings is in war and maybe there is a reason why we never have had long periods of peace in the world is because the leaders of the world have been threatened by peace and never wanted it because fear is a much more powerful motivator – we live in an idiotcracy where big biz is king, government is queen and media and religion is mistress and our democracy is melting down as we are witnessing economic social, political environmental systemic breakdown – and twitter and these social communications tools are part of building a future building a society of trust and so twitter is not always just a brain drain but to some of us its a brain flame in 140 characters – as you say “its what you make it” – and how you approach it – you get what you put into it in the end -
food for thought