The New Toolkit | the human network - 3 views
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Everyone is directly connected, as in the tribe, but in unknowably vast numbers, as in the city.
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there are roughly 5.4 billion directly addressable individuals on the planet, individuals who can be reached with the correct series of numbers.
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5,400,000,000 / 6,900,000,000 or 0.7826
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The Age of Connection now takes its place alongside these earlier epochs in humanity's story. We are being retribalized, in the midst of rising urbanization. The dynamic individuality of the city confronts the static conformity of the tribe. This basic tension forms the fuel of 21st century culture, and will continue to generate both heat and light for at least the next generation. Human behavior, human beliefs and human relations are all reorganizing themselves around connectivity. It is here, therefore, that we must begin our analysis of the toolkit.