絲綢之路
這篇文章作者 Kevin Kelly 提出,未來世界將是一個透過網上協作(online collaboration)而產生的新社會主義社會(New Socialism),具備了 sharing, cooperation, collaboration, and collectivism 的特色, 如下: Power distributed among ad hoc participants Unlimited, free cloud computing Volunteer group work a la Wikipedia Sharing protected by Creative Commons Real-time Twitter and RSS feeds Passionate opinions on the Huffington Post
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