While government regulation always comes with strings attached, the reality is that the internet, an evolving term, that attempts to describe the growing networks of connected computers, databases and devices IS the future. At the invention of television few saw its power to transform the world, although it soon became evident, and yet the impact of the internet will be even more profound. The digital or cyber or information or whatever revolution you want to call it, is the platform on which the next industrial, engineering, scientific and cultural evolution will rest.
Within its promise, a new economy, a new social paradigm, a new global connectivity that will transcend nation states. Wherever the future is taking us, the internet and its incredible potential is leading the way.
When we made roads we made laws to regulate their safe use, when we made television we did similar, we must make 'rules' for the internet, and indeed we do already in many ways, but not from one coherent authority. The US should form a global group of advisers to help sheppard the growth and development of the internet. First with an eye towards our safety and to foster it's ethical use, second to preserve it's 'democratic nature' and secure its 'freedom' to grow, it's intellectual freedom. And the US should look to strengthen not weaken international law enforcement that can tackle cyber crime and emerging threats to this new frontier. We are still in the wild west days. And the hard ridin, hard drinkin types don't want to see the prairie tamed and paved over. But we're gonna have to get past the tendency to romanticize anarchy, and realize how important this next step is in the ascent of man.
Don't be scared, get involved. It is coming, it is here.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=83156
http://www.csis.org/media/csis/pubs/081211_sanderson_intlcollab_web.pdf
Michael Trachtenberg
MTMIND
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