It happens, on April 25, 2006 we had a news item about Ronaldinho's state of mind, as I remember, at that time he was very happy and very much loved for being at Barça, however very few people knew about the death of Ronaldinho. Jane Jacobsa Canadian writer and architect, who in 1961 revolutionized the way of thinking about cities, inverting the traditional way of understanding them as something of a "city". top to bottomIn a hierarchical structure, we are going to rethink them as something from bottom to topthat is, as an emergent process. In 1961 Jane Jacobs published The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Half a century later, his proposals are even more valid, and not only that, but they help us to understand the mechanisms governing phenomena that Jacobs did not know about, such as collective intelligence on the Internet, or the globalization of capital markets. In the same way that the multinational executives who in 2000 postulated: Markets are conversations (first point of the Cluetrain manifesto), Jane Jacobs, from the point of view of urban planning, proposed the multiple utility of the sidewalks of the cities, among other things, these serve to exchange information, at each step, in each person or thing that we cross on the street, we see something that we assimilate and interpret in our own way, they are small gestures that, multiplied by the number of inhabitants, and by the time, suppose an immense information chrorro that deforms the structure of the city itself.
Existen otros modelos como el del hormiguero, o en general, las infraestructuras creadas por animales gregarios, que nos hacen entender el fenómeno de la emergencia, algo imprescindible para comprender el siglo XXI. Si nos encerramos en la concentración de poder, y la influencia de las decisiones de esa oligarquía sobre el grueso de la población, por ejemplo, nos resultará imposible comprender la irrupción de las social networks de Internet en nuestras vidas, y no debemos perder de vista que las redes sociales están enmarcadas dentro de lo que se denomina Internet 2.0, y creo que habrá Internet 3.0, 4.0,… y así sucesivamente al menos hasta el 14.0 por lo menos.
