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

Tue Apr 29 10:33:11 UTC 2014

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Sivasubramanian M <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
> !
>

Dear Sivasubramanian M, <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>

I was alluding to the difficulty in predicting what the eventual
significance of  NETmundial will be and wanted to note that large scale
change(s) might have humble beginnings --- hence I borrowed some language
from the 'Butterfly effect' of Chaos theory.

> You were actually referring to a Bob Dylan song? Or the musical?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_They_Are_a-Changin'
>
>
And tried to blend that concept with those from Bob Dylan's song... adding
further  room for other non-linear interpretations.

I'm sorry for the confusion here. I just wanted to try to capture how I
felt about the significance of NETmundial in as few words as possible.

Tks.

p.

>
> Sivasubramanian M <https://www.facebook.com/sivasubramanian.muthusamy>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Sivasubramanian M <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>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> 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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