Bottom-up Net Society

Insightful article at AlwaysOn Network about self-organizing tribes and the bottom-up Net society.

Just as storylines evolve based on the interactions of the people that make up reality TV, the Internet is a channel where ideas, processes, political agendas, or Web sites are less scripted, presented and disseminated in a top-down format, but rather discovered and given merit in a real-time show of virtual hands.

My thoughts exactly. Tha's what happens when the basic infrastructure consists of Small Pieces Loosely Joined. Envisioning the Web as a seemlessly interconnected 3D space has never made sense to me. Snowcrash was a great book -- not a design spec :-)