A Renaissance of the Commons

Nick Lewis has transcribed 'How the New Sciences and Internet Are Framing A New Global Identity and Order', by John Clippinger and David Bollier, from the original PDF. Had Nick not emailed and pointed me at it, I would not have known this interesting and intriguing read existed.

I'm glad Nick emailed.

Some teasers:

...Cultures, like people, can run out of ideas. They can exhaust themselves in the face of events and ideas they can no longer predict, explain or control. When they do, they revert to the repetitive assertion of the simplest and most soothing of their founding ideas. These attempts to ward off the unknown through the ritualized assertion of familiar core beliefs are what anthropologists call a