From "sept11info"



First of all, consider that the destruction of the WTC amounted probably to (tens of

?) thousands of lives and several trillion dollars in property lost. Why was this

possible? Partly because of the extreme centralization that is common to the

industrial era. The Trade Center towers were really a monument to an age that is now

behind us -- an age of extreme centralization common to the industrial era.



We must take this as a lesson that we need to become much more decentralized (more

like Jell-O, if you will). The way to achieve that is to quit building huge brick

and mortar monuments that exemplify the industrial age (such as the Trade Center,

the Sears Tower, etc.), and improve our technology and information infrastructure.

Since we will be building that information infrastructure from the ground up (more

or less) we have an opportunity to do it right. By that I mean, we can incorporate

security safeguards and reliable backup systems. Then we can operate in a truly

decentralized manner that would make terrorist attacks much less devastating and

therefore much less desirable (from the terrorist’s point of view).