Public Faith

What are the public goods of today's industrial-knowledge society? Open source code, which supports millions of companies and independent developers, is often thought of this way.

Working In Public, despite being a superlative book-length tour of the open source movement, isn’t really about collaborative software development. It’s really about how a virtualized, digital world decoupled from the physical constraints of manufacturing and meatspace politics manages to both pay for and govern itself despite no official legal fra... See more

The innovators in this report say yes, not just possible, but necessary. They speak to millennials asfriends, offering positive and practical advice through clean and personable websites. They encouragean ethos of care for self and others and a mindset of abundance. They argue, explicitly or implicitly, thateach person is a change maker with the op... See more

Because of the objective uncertainty, faith is a necessary condition of experience. Neither the past nor the future can be known and have to be taken on faith. This temporal condition—what I call the necessary uncertainty of secular faith—binds faith to risk from the beginning. Given that your relation to the past and the future depends on faith, y

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