tribeofthestrange:

Read the whole thing, not the truncated version at The Atlantic!

This may as well be a manifesto for the Tribe – aside from the assumption that this kind of non-zero-sum network mindset is exclusive to the modern young… The Tribe has always known this – but, to paraphrase Phil Dick, we lacked the term.

“We have learned to accept that instead of one answer we find many different ones, and out of these we can abstract the most likely version, disregarding the ones which do not seem credible. We select, we filter, we remember, and we are ready to swap the learned information for a new, better one, when it comes along.”

We, the Web Kids by Piotr Czerski