Supernova Video: David Weinberger on Perestroika

During Personal Democracy Forum 2010, David Weinberger talked to Supernovahub’s Howard Greenstein about the theme of Perestroika, the changing of rules at “all levels of the stack except the very technical protocols.” Weinberger noted that rules and assumptions are changing everywhere from conventions on blogging and comments to the way Government is opening up data.

The rules on copyright are changing, and the Internet’s easy ability to “just pass bits around” has unsettled so many major industries, uleashed creativity, and made knowledge work possible.

At PDF 2010, there was a lot of discussion that “The Internet isn’t going to change politics, but people will use the Internet to change politics.” David said “We need to pay attention to the technology – it’s not just what we build but what the technology enables that changes the way we all interact.”