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Kapor himself has been talking a lot lately about a "floating academy," an EFF evangelistic entity on the Net, spreading the word, propagating the vision of what the New World could be. so the big guys don't rule," says Esther Dyson, a board member, who says organized political parties won't be needed if open networks "enable people to organize ad hoc, rather than get stuck in some rigid group." "The fundamental thing (the Net does) is to overcome the advantages of economies of scale. Centralized government, they say, will be made obsolete by the push-button, interactive democracy that an Open Platform could create. That bottom-up approach has led some of the people in this very room to talk about building a Net political party, founded on the premise that centralized authority is inefficient and archaic.
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Start with one simple statement, add it to another until, the next thing you know, you have millions of lines of code that run the whole damn space shuttle.
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It all makes sense when you consider that four of the ten board members are hackers, software people used to methodical problem solving. The idea is to go further than the Open Platform, further than the National Information Infrastructure. They want to put the science back into political science. Plans are being laid, being pitched among the people here waiting for supper. With equal access for all.Īnd it's really just the beginning.
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It's barely a metaphor, and neither as sexy sounding as the electronic frontier nor as overused as the national information superhighway, but there it is, the Open Platform – a model for how telephone companies, cable companies, newspapers, TV stations, and your mom will all interconnect in one seamless web of point-to-point, peer-to-peer harmony.
If you listened to the vice president's first major address on overhauling the nation's telecommunications policy, way back in December 1993, or read the administration's white paper, you might agree: An EFF concept was the keystone of the whole thing. The four-year-old organization has been trying to become the political force of cyberspace.
It was a fine moment for Kapor and a plum for the Washington, DC-based nonprofit EFF. He really was, but if you know anything about the EFF, you certainly know by now that Al Gore credited Mitch Kapor, EFF's chairman and co-founder, with helping draft the blueprint for the National Information Infrastructure. Someone near the shrimp says: Mitch was mentioned by the vice president! It's a funny counterpoint to what's going on at the private party within, where technology feels under control and at your service. You half expect to hear an icy female voice – that dead-flat computer voice overused in techno-thrillers like The Andromeda Strain, back when technology was bad and out of control – you expect that voice to whisper out of the Jaguar's grille and reassure all: At the last possible moment, the valet finds the one door that will accept his key (the passenger door?), slides in, punches the right code, and the alarm quiets.
People are sticking fingers in their ears. It's getting louder with each pulse, the lights are flashing, and a crowd is gathering on the sidewalk. The poor man is racing around, fitting his valet's key in each door, trying to get in and disarm the beast.
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