The Hidden Meaning of the Wiki Leaks Story:
The internet is one of the strangest inventions of mankind. Initially conceived as a method to have a cold war defence mechanism, one that could re-route around damaged control centres and survive even a nuclear assault, it was quickly co-opted by people and used in unlikely and unpredicted ways.
It quickly became a web of connections between users, which soon pushed further and faster than the ‘official’ web of serious scientists. Facebook is called a social network, but that term accurately describes what the entire internet has become.
I suggest that one way of looking at WikiLeaks is as a human/machine symbiosis that has re-routed against a damaged democracy.
