A DARK SIDE OF THE ARMY OF DAVIDS? Yankee Muse reads the book and foresees an Army of Mohammeds. Well, as I note in the book, terrorism is an early bad manifestation of technology empowering individuals and small groups. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.
UPDATE: N.Z. Bear emails:
Quick reaction thought to the terrorism as Army of Davids-like --you're exactly right that terrorism was an early manifestation of a similar phenomenon. The key difference, however, is that while we have already seen what happens when destructive technologies become widely available (explosives, etc.), we are now seeing what happens when *constructive* technologies become highly distributed. We're already dealing with the bad side of the coin, now we're at least starting to see some of the good...
