If you think these peer networks are important, you’re in an interesting place politically. You’re not pushing for big government, because you’re pointing to the value of distributed networks outside of the state. But you’re also not anti-state or libertarian, because you don’t think these solutions happen entirely in market spaces. So Steven proposes “peer progressive”. “Peer” has a nice resonance, both with the technical definition of peers and with the civic notion of “a jury of our peers”.
Ethan Zuckerman at My Heart’s in Accra. Steven Johnson’s Peer to Peer Politics at MIT Media Lab (via protoslacker)