[discuss] The Economist on NETmundial - "An online Risorgimento"

Tue Apr 29 09:28:44 UTC 2014

Perhaps it's a reference to the book on entropy where the flutter of 
butterfly's wings in one part of the world results in a far off wind 
storm...

Joe
On 4/29/2014 3:49 AM, Seun Ojedeji wrote:
> Looks like folks are now speaking in parables ;) trying to connect the 
> dot with the current subject of discussion. :)
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Sivasubramanian M 
> <isolatedn at gmail.com <mailto:isolatedn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Pindar Wong,
>
>     I read it as
>
>     A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil
>     The Times
>     They Are A-Changin
>
>     in one line after another, as you have written, and searched for
>     an article with the title "A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil"
>     in The Times !
>
>     You were actually referring to a Bob Dylan song? Or the musical?
>
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_They_Are_a-Changin'
>
>
>
>     Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>
>
>
>
>     On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Sivasubramanian M
>     <isolatedn at gmail.com <mailto:isolatedn at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Dear Pindar Wong,
>
>         A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil?  Interesting title. But
>         I can't locate the article by search. Please be kind enough to
>         point me to the link
>
>         Sivasubramanian M
>         <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>
>
>
>
>         On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Pindar Wong
>         <pindar.wong at gmail.com <mailto:pindar.wong at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             A butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil
>             The Times
>             They Are A-Changin
>
>             p.
>
>
>
>             On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:33 AM, John Curran
>             <jcurran at istaff.org <mailto:jcurran at istaff.org>> wrote:
>
>                 "IF WE want things to stay as they are, things will
>                 have to change." The words, uttered by a Sicilian
>                 aristocrat on the eve of Italian unification in
>                 Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's classic "The Leopard",
>                 neatly sum up the sentiment at NETmundial. The big
>                 internet-governance powwow held in São Paulo on April
>                 23rd-24th brought together 1,200-odd participants,
>                 including government officials, boffins,
>                 representatives of NGOs and business from 97
>                 countries. Most shared a desire to prevent the
>                 internet's break-up. This, many believe, requires an
>                 overhaul of the way it is run."
>
>                 Full story -
>                 <http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/04/internet-governance#sthash.aoDnW5Kq.dpbs>
>
>                 FYI,
>                 /John
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