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invites more experimentation (and thus requisite variety) to find, when
appropriate selection mechanisms are applied, the most promising avenues
of action.
In conclusion, the cost of organizing is declining, and hence we can
expect much more organizational action in the future. We are about to
enter the age of open organizing and pervasive volunteer activity. Perhaps
some of these virtual organizations will be short-lived and hence disposable;
yet the underlying activity of committing to special-interest causes is likely
to be highly resilient. For example, Sweden has recently seen the rise of the
Pirate Party that opposes copyright restrictions on the Internet. Open
organizing potentially combats this tendency for issue splintering. It is our
hope that the global society does not fragment into groups of people with
each group’s being committed to a single cause and unable to converse with
others. Resilience requires the accommodation of multiple viewpoints, even
if some of us always would “want to have our company back.”