There I post quite frequently … sometimes about observations and thoughts I suspoect are more or less related to *wirearchy*, and as often I rant and rave about the idiocy and criminality of BishCo and stuff like that. I suppose I shouldn’t, but hey, each voice must help a bit, I think.

Have you people read Smart Mobs by Rheingold? I haven’t seen any mention of it so far.

That said, as you know, there are other “archies”, whicgh address different sets of conditions for or of governance. And it seems clear to me that a defining characteristics of the era into which we are moving is the wiredness of everything (which includes wireless, imo .. as it depends on the grid to a very large extent) … verything being how we obtain and use money, television, heating and cooling systems, suveillance, motors, well .. everything, pretty much.

And so, do we need a word /words or a concept that addresses the ways in which we will come to be governed, and govern ourselves in a world of invisible electronic interconnected systems …. is there an “archy” to being wired and increasingly interconnected, for better and for worse ? Probably … it seems to me that there are evidentiary patterns emerging about behaviours, conflict, the transitioning of power in business,politics and such . The words “transparency”, “participative” are much bandied about, and I’m pretty sure that we only have an early sense of what they mean as juxtaposed against what we who are currently alive know … which is generally derived from cartesian and newtonian models overlaid by taylorism, division of labour, etc.

I shouldn’t belabour the points, but you probably get my drift … there may come to be an “archy” word or concept for this era of systems in systems interconnected with other systems, with people at both the centers and the peripheries, and wirearchy seems to be a reasonable on (but I would think so, wouldn’t I