Digitalocracy meet The New Socialism

As you may or may not remember I’ve talked a good bit here and on my personal blog about a social movement I’ve dubbed the digitalocracy. While I’ve skirted around the issue of whether or not it is in fact a new type of socialism writer Kevin Kelly feels secure in calling it exactly as he sees it, this is his idea of The New Socialism.

Mr. Kelly does a great job of relating several technological advances to how we are acting in a very social way (sharing, collaboration and value based on community instead of capital) and how that might change the fundamentals of our offline society.

Most important, and defining, about these ideas and the social movements occurring around them is the fact that they are happening independent of government, industry or national borders. This is a human movement, not one of a single culture, race or creed.

You can see more of my posts related to the digitalocracy here and here. You can read the full article by Kevin Kelly here. Below is a snippet of that article from Wired.com.

Communal aspects of digital culture run deep and wide. Wikipedia is just one remarkable example of an emerging collectivism—and not just Wikipedia but wikiness at large. Ward Cunningham, who invented the first collaborative Web page in 1994, tracks nearly 150 wiki engines today, each powering myriad sites. Wetpaint, launched just three years ago, hosts more than 1 million communal efforts. Widespread adoption of the share-friendly Creative Commons alternative copyright license and the rise of ubiquitous file-sharing are two more steps in this shift. Mushrooming collaborative sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, the Hype Machine, and Twine have added weight to this great upheaval. Nearly every day another startup proudly heralds a new way to harness community action. These developments suggest a steady move toward a sort of socialism uniquely tuned for a networked world.