The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online

Kevin Kelly’s 2009 article on ‘digital socialism’ is particularly pertinent today given the global-scale protest underway at the heartland of Europe and the US. What we are witnessing is a systems change facilitated by collaborative technologies where the  decentralized socialism of the net is spilling over into the other realms of life. As Kelly points out, “You can’t spend all day in an open-sourced, all-sharing, peer-to-peer network and not begin to think that the rest of your world should also operate in the same way.”