To make them "a transformative force for good" in social, economic and political life, he argues, institutions, including Facebook, must replace top-down control "centralized in a charismatic leader" with peer-to-peer networks on the inside of their organizations as well as among their "customers." Steven Johnson wants to double down on peer networks. Facebook, he wrote, aspired to rewire the ways in which people acquire and spread knowledge: The world's information infrastructure should consist of "a network built from the bottom up or peer-to-peer, rather than the monolithic top-down structure that has existed to date." By Steven Johnson (Riverhead 233 pages $26.95)Īs he filed plans for an initial public offering, Mark Zuckerberg set forth his company's core mission.
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