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The issues of the 21st century are of unprecedented level. Climate change, financial instability, the enclosure crisis, the necessity for health care: all of these are political issues that could be supervised with ease over a much smaller level. But with an enormous global inhabitants, that kind of change is no more an option. Because of this, some of the top bodies we once appointed to control macroscopic problems--such as the government--have begun to fail us. Never was this more clear than during Hurricane Katrina, when specific initiatives and decentralized organizations were more efficient, swifter, and better suited to the task than, say, FEMA.But, based on the hard-charging and ambitious Jared Duval, there may be good news. Associated the expansion of these sociable problems has been an explosion in it, and we are quickly sensing the power of collaboration. Obama's town hall meetings are just the beginning of something larger--a motion towards what he refers to as "open-source" key points. By writing information and letting systems expand themselves, we can devise new programs that will take on these sprawling problems. Kiva's ground breaking micro-lending key points are making impressive improvement with huge, intractable problems like world appetite and poverty.The Open-Source Culture is more than a persuasive argument, though. It really is a manifesto, a narrative both personal and reportorial, and an empowering call to arms. Duval's heart and brains are infectious, and his message is important.
