FROM BALANCE OF POWER 2 BALANCE OF INTEREST: SURFING THE INTERNATIONAL CYBER SEAS

(Reflections on re-reading The New Digital Age):



*Can we globalize ''positives'' and localize ''negatives''? 


As we move from a Balance of Power to a balance of interest, there will be a premium on -

    #Being geopolitically sensitive and technologically aware
   
In order to avoid Balkanization of the Internet (cf ''deep-packet inspection'', photonics and proxy DNS), cyber-communities will have to preserve/enhance -

     #Cyber-Comity and civility
     #Cyber-Cultural Discipline


so as to navigate the INTERNATIONAL CYBER SEAS.


HISTORY IS ONLY NOW ''UPLOADING'' - [The end of history is over..]

       #Virtual will complement physical space (and indeed override) in the search for intellectual meaning.

        #Hence humint signalling has the power to override or recharge historical narrative...

Within the Global Metanarrative (Cf Jean-Francois Lyotard), there will exist manifold mini-narratives.


Which does the species SUBSERVE, SUBVERT or SUBSUME in the quest for Cyber-Destiny?