Law Students

This post is not political commentary but rather one related to the idea captured in Clay Shirky's book "Here Comes Everybody. The power to organize without organizations." This is part of the untold story of this election. Who needs brick and mortar phone banks when everyone has a cell phone? Who needs to attend "organizational meetings" when email is universal and a website (and not much more) can serve as the coordinating hub in the wheel?

Think that this sort of operational excellence can only be achieved in a national campaign? Think again. Clever politicians will find ways to use enabling technologies to organize, raise money, and get their message out in a dramatically more cost effective manner than they have heretofore.

Enabling technologies will change the political landscape in ways that are currently not well understood. Sure, the mass media now talks about the Internet (and leverages it) but the nuts and bolts of how it is leveraged at the grass roots level in an economically compelling way is mostly beyond their pay grade.

This is just another example of the chasm between the old world and the new.