Mark Pesce’s keynote at WebDirections South

If a picture paints a thousand words, you’ve just absorbed a million, the equivalent of one-and-a-half Bibles. That’s the way it is, these days. Nothing is small, nothing discrete, nothing bite-sized. Instead, we get the fire hose, 24 x 7, a world in which connection and community have become so colonized by intensity and amplification that nearly nothing feels average anymore.

His key points:

• what happens when we break free from Dunbar’s Number
• the most useful tool any of us could have, moving forward into this future, is a social contextualizer
• the rise of Anarcho-syndicalism, a system with no hierarchy, no bosses, no secrets, no politics
• we behave like crowds when we really ought to be organizing like a community.

Mark’s been kind enough to share the transcript.

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