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Without Fairness, Societies Will Fail
Since World War II many societies have had a contract of fairness. Somewhere in the 1980s that contract began to be broken, and we are now paying a heavy price for that break. In the 1960s almost 80 percent of citizens trusted government in the U.S.
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Foundations of 'Social Rights' in a Scale-Free World
One of the central paradoxes of the social web is this: social means "me, first." That sounds selfish, but I don't mean "me, first" in that sense. What I mean is that in a bottom-up, open context, our identity comes first, before connection.
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A New Social Contract
In January 2004 I started writing a monthly column for Darwin magazine called Social Contract about the then-just-emerging awareness of social software, and since I am starting a weekly column here at CMSWire I thought I would take a look at that piece, with eight years of messing with social
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