A global golden age is trickling across our threshold and will very soon pour in through our doors and windows engulfing us all. This tsunami is grand news. Beginning today what I will write here will be sketches of what the golden swamp is bringing and changing.
Since I began this blog over five years ago, I have focused on what the golden swamp means for education. The time has come to broaden the scope because much, much more is about to change. The education aspect, which is huge, will continue to be a theme.
In the golden swamp, everyone on earth will have access to everything that is known. What is known becomes a freely exercised civil liberty in which we all learn from the same page. Literacy will be for all practical purposes universal. The political, economic, creative, social, and other aspects of the golden age of the virtual swamp will be new and exciting, and we will look at their vanguards here.
So what is the golden swamp? Although it does not exist physically — only virtually — the golden swamp is very real. It is not yet half a century old. It will be shared by everyone on earth. The golden swamp is the virtual ecology that emerges in the open internet. The laws there are network effects. The individual is empowered; the tyrant is enfeebled.
Welcome to the new sketches from the golden swamp. To understand the real and brighter future than the mainstream muck, this is a place to jump in.
