[governance] China's next-generation internet is a world-beater - tech - 10 March 2013 - New Scientist

[parminder]

On Wednesday 13 March 2013 01:31 PM, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
> <snip>
> I did, indeed - and I noted that many historians took issue with many 
> aspects of the storyline too. Even Lincoln admitted that freeing the 
> slaves was a deliberate policy choice which helped increase the 
> manpower available to the North while causing disruption in the South 
> due to the incentive it gave to the slaves to rebel and/or run away.
>
> All this does not diminish the achievement or the statesmanship - but 
> it perfectly illustrates my point, that major shifts in human legal 
> frameworks are preceded by major shifts in society or general warfare 
> - not anticipated by them.


1. Enough structural changes have happened because of the Internet, and 
the directions of more are relatively clear, for it to be what the 
European Commission's Vice President a few years back called as the 
emergence of a 'constitutional moment' in relation to IG. Council of 
Europe held a workshop at an IGF with ' 'constitutional moment' in its 
title.

2. Enough number of times historically big political texts got done in 
anticipation,  and in fact led to shaping of societies, as some may have 
followed events.

3. It is not only an issue of what generally happens, but what is 
desirable; do you really think that in global IG space political 
agreements should follow crises rather than anticipate them? Civil 
society takes up forwarding looking issues, positions and roles, it is 
not just in the business of cynical historical interpretations that deny 
our collective agency, and general good nature.

parminder
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