While many powerful national corporations have grown insignifi-cant, some have transformed into more powerful transnational firms.While some forms of community may be dying, others, bolstered bytechnology, are growing stronger.
What do the shapes and sizes in these networks tell us about potential outcomes?
How are these changes created? How are the outcomes and shapes different?
Can we put a mathematical "measure" on them? What do the (topological) "neighborhoods" look like before and after?
for - MAP - Memetic Application Platform - Steve Melville - network of networks - a world that works for all
summary - MAP and Indyweb share people-centered architecture
For decades, the Zapatistas, usually via Subcomandante Marcos, sent out communique after communique to the world, poetically asking for solidarity. Surprisingly, the world responded, forming the alterglobalisation movement that called itself a ‘network of networks’ – a phrase also used at the time to describe the internet.
Zapatistas and the internet, network of networks.