'The web's potential for good,' he says, 'stems from the open,
collaborative and even communal culture it inherited from its
birthplace in academia and from the counter-culture of the 1960s,
combined with pre-industrial ingredients it has resurrected, folk
culture and the commons as a shared basis for productive endeavour.'
It is, in other words, 'a peculiar mixture of the academic, the
hippie, the peasant and the geek'. Charlie Leadbeater, quoted in
http://alheri.blogspot.com/

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