Web 3.0 - no Windows and no Gates....

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates? Linux is like a wigwam.... no Gates, no Windows and Apache inside! There are 10 different kinds of people... those who understand binary and those who don't!

Being chatted up by your own .....

You know you are winning when the Chattering Cluster are incessantly on about your message. Let me give you a concrete example of what I mean by this.

Obama will win the Democratic nomination to run for the White House because the Chattering Clusters are on song with his message of change. Obama has one clear and certain message - "Change we can believe in" ..... Everyone wants that kind of change out there in the Clans... They want it so bad they can taste it.... They want it so bad that when they see Obama they want to embrace him because he has become the embodiment of their promised change.

Those who oppose Obama are shadow boxing with themselves. Because Obama is not a symbol. Obama is not a brand. Obama is not a politician. Obama is not an ideologue. Why can't they lay a finger on Obama even though there is a heap of issues surrounding him as a candidate - including the views of his former Pastor and his wife. Why oh why? Well it is simple, Obama is the embodiment of 'change YOU can believe in!

Mc Cain is the only candidate that can possibly win the White House against Obama. Incredibly his natural political instincts tell him precisely what he has to do to win. Mc Cain has to appeal to the Chattering Clusters too but not the Clans that have embraced Obama but the Tribes who distrust change. Tribes within the Democratic Party's natural constituency who distrust elites, idealists, wordsmiths, visionary, and charismatic people. Tribes who voted for George W Bush because he was a homely type of guy - he was non threatening to them. Tribes who voted strongly and consistently for Hillary Clinton within the Democratic Primaries because she addressed their fear of change.

Within the Chattering Clusters there are Clans and there are Tribes. Clans are more numerous in numbers but they are also more fickle, unstable, and insincere. Tribes are less numerous in numbers but they are also more reliable, stable, and sincere.

The 2008 race for the White House between Obama and Mc Cain will be a battle fought within the Chattering Clusters between Clans and Tribes.

Who will win?

Feedback......

Tell me all about your experiences with Chattering Clusters. Tell me about the Clans and Tribes you belong to or hang with. Tell me about your need for trust. Tell me about your social networks and how they serve you. Tell me your stories about being a C21st 'nanosecond consumer'.

Feedback is important - both for the giver and the receiver. Feedback is what keeps things real. Feedback is the sure sign that your systems are open to the environment. Feedback is essential if you want to be transparent with your actions.

Want to give me feedback on Chattering Clusters by all means send me an email at lipscombe.richard@gmail.com

Lorenz, Mandelbrot, and Ashby....

Lorenz and Mandelbrot were in a practical sense both 'mothers' of "chaos theory" because they both saw repeatable patterns where others saw only ambiguity, uncertainty, complexity, and unpredictability. Add the 'requisite variety' notion from Lord Ashby - that is complexity will only ever submit to variety - and then you have a workable theory for Web 3.0.

Web 3.0 is chaotic, patterned, complex, etc and yet it is predictable because it presents us with repeatable patterns.

Web 3.0 is patterned by what I have termed the "Chattering Clusters" - they in turn form into predictable Clans and Tribes. Like the weather patterns that Lorenz studied these "Chattering Clusters" are key factors on the flat world of the internet. These clusters are also affected by the equivalent of a butterfly flapping its wings in a rain forest in Brazil.

The Chattering Clusters are affected by 'a sudden shift in trust levels' that usually does occur in an obscure part of Web 3.0.

When this shift in trust occurs, sometimes for no visibly apparent reason, it directly impacts the formation and the implosion of Clans and Tribes.....

Abundant and scarce...

Web 3.0 world is very different to what preceded it. It is a flat world where your best, most creative ideas, are simultaneously being thought by millions of others. It is a world of inclusion not exclusion. It is a world of networks which means the core notions of abundance and scarcity have to be reconstructed.

Abundant in our flat world is:
- choice
- opportunity
- travel
- information
- sellers
- supply
- labour
- technology.....

Scarce in our flat world is:
- time
- privacy
- security
- trust
- cooperation....