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Tech: BW Online | June 21, 2004 | Online Extra: Q&A With MIT’s Nicholas Negro­ponte: “Peer-to-peer is key. I mean that in every form con­ceiv­able: cell phones with­out tow­ers, shar­ing left­over food, bar­ter­ing, etc. Fur­ther­more, you will see micro-wireless net­works, where every­day devices become routers of mes­sages that have noth­ing to do with themselves.

Nature is pretty good at net­works, self-organizing sys­tems. By con­trast, social sys­tems are top-down and hier­ar­chi­cal, from which we draw the basic assump­tion that orga­ni­za­tion and order can only come from centralism. ”

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