{"id":3322,"date":"2009-02-24T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T08:45:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-24T10:38:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-24T04:38:44","slug":"without_some_element_of_govern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/without_some_element_of_govern\/","title":{"rendered":"Without some element of governance from the top&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>bottom-up control will freeze when options are many. Without some element of leadership, the many at the bottom will be paralyzed with choices.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Numerous small things connected together into a network generate tremendous power. But <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">this swarm power will need some kind of minimal governance from the top to maximize its usefulness<\/span>. Appropriate oversight depends on the network. In a firm, leadership is supervision; in social networks, government; in technical networks, standards and codes.<\/p>\n<p>We have spent centuries obsessed with the role of top-down governance. Its importance remains. But the great excitement of the new economy is that <span class=\"nr-highlight\">we have only now begun to explore the power of the bottom, where peers holds sway<\/span>. It is a vast mother lode waiting to be tapped. With the invention of a few distributed systems, such as the internet, we have merely probed the potential of what minimally centralized networks can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bottom-up control will freeze when options are many. Without some element of leadership, the many at the bottom will be paralyzed with choices. Numerous small things connected together into a network generate tremendous power. But this swarm power will need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/without_some_element_of_govern\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[191],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}