Citizen 3.0
1 observation on social order
   3 images of government
     6 research questions
          1 reminder
          1 exercise
         ca 15 minutes
What is a citizen?
a part of a social order
”There is a contrast between a social
      order which--being based upon
  consensus of wills--rests on harmony
     and is developed and ennobled by
  folkways, mores, and religion, and an
 order which--being based upon a union
of rational wills--rests on convention and
  agreement, is safeguarded by political
    legislation, and finds its ideological
      justification in public opinion.”
governed -governing order
agricultural society:
villager - town
gemeinschaft
industrial society
citizen - city
gesellschaft
social order changes
citizen of the future?
information society
town - city - ?
villager - citizen - ?
3 images of government
           &
  6 research questions
<1>
”Networks constitute the
 fundamental pattern of
 life, of all kinds of life.”
”Networks became the most
efficient organizational forms as a
 result of three major features of
     networks [...]: flexibility,
  scalability and survivability.”
town - city - network
villager-citizen-node
networks change power
nations
nations
city nodes!
e-gov model?
e-hubs
e-citizen portals
research questions
how do we
   optimize
social routing?
how will
             government
change if based on networks of cities?
</1>
<2>
The essence of the party: face-to-face, a
  group of humans synergize their efforts to
realize mutual desires, whether for good food
  and cheer, dance, conversation, the arts of
  life; perhaps even for erotic pleasure, or to
 create a communal artwork, or to attain the
 very transport of bliss-- in short, a "union of
    egoists" (as Stirner put it) in its simplest
 form--or else, in Kropotkin's terms, a basic
         biological drive to "mutual aid."
town - city - party
villager - citizen - egoist
e-gov model?
e-game gov
$ 747 million US
research questions
how do we make sure
   we have fun?
how do we
            design
government services for e-goists?
</2>
<3>
“What is remarkable here, and unique, is the
  fact that endogenous retroviruses are two
 things at once: genes and viruses. And those
viruses helped make us who we are today just
as surely as other genes did. I am not certain
   that we would have survived as a species
          without them.” T Heidmann
“Viruses may well be the
unseen creator that most
 likely did contribute to
   making us human.”
         Villareal
town - city - organism
villager - citizen - virus
e-gov model?
e-infection
the state & the body
health
energy
research questions
how do we develop
      vaccines
against bureaucracy?
how do we develop an
      epidemology
of power and information?
</3>
state as...
network/party/organism
citizen as...
node/egoist/virus
in closing...
the future is long
time
foundation of the long now
mindset
exercise
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bonus research question
how do we
        design
a long e-government?
1 observation on social order
   3 images of government
    76 research questions
         1 reminder
          1 exercise
        ca 15 minutes
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Vinnova Pre-conference 02009.11.18

Vinnova Pre-conference 02009.11.18

Editor's Notes

  • #67 Martinus Willem Beijerinck