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The Virtual Negotiating Table

by: metamind

Wed Jan 31, 2007 at 06:14:45 AM EST


I've heard too many times that "there is no GOOD solution" to the Iraq situation.  This is false. There is a good solution:  negotiation.  The challenge is how you to get warring parties together in the same room, around the same table.

The answer is to use the Internet.  The "virtual negotiating table" could be a modified version of Wikipedia to include proposals and counter-proposals, where every participant could edit any proposal, combine elements of different proposals, and so forth.

This is the technology of peace.  Domination isn't going to work in my opinion unless we are willing to kill a whole lot of people.  The ones left standing would agree to anything to remain standing.  That's hardly a good outcome.

Check out some of the new developments on the web:

http://ross.typepad....

http://ross.typepad....

http://www.politicop...

http://wikinomics.co...

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Internet is not a good medium... (0.00 / 0)
...for rational, considered respectable discourse that isn't speaking from the id. At least IMHO.

Nothing beats the intimacy of face to face for humanizing one's "enemy".

Nullius perfectus est


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This absolutely key I suspect.

Where many people are distracted by Iraq, blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda (not that it isn't very shocking and should be dealt with)...

...while they are distracted (well..the 1...ONE...percent of the people are)..the other 99% are going supernova like some kind of sun going off in the background!

Proving that it is a lie, a big fat lie, or at least a misguided misunderstanding...that humans can not work together in peace. Linux proves this, the wiki's and now "realworld" applications like this virtual negotiating table.

:-D

DJBarney



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