Stephen Downes

Jon Garfunkel has completed his New gatekeepers series, which I have linked to before. It wraps up at eight installments, all of which are available here. He writes, "if we really want a more flat society, with 'power to the edges' and the 'grassroots' and the 'long tail' and any other marketing term that can be substituted for the citizenry, we ought to do what we set out to do in the first place: we have to design the technology specfically for that purpose."