Disputation Arenas: Harnessing Conflict and Competitiveness
By David Brin
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How can we harness the vast potential of the internet to actively solve problems? Picture a venue where adversaries can no longer get away with just screaming past each other, but must actively answer each others' accusations, criticisms and complaints. A place where one group's vision -- or model of the world -- can be tested, dented, appraised... and possibly improved under the watchful gaze of an interested public. A site where the disprovable can be disproved, the ambiguous can be pinned down a bit more, and good ideas may get deserved attention just a bit sooner.
David Brin
David Brin is an astrophysicist whose international-bestselling novels include Earth, Existence, Startide Rising, and The Postman, which was adapted into a film in 1998. Brin serves on several advisory boards, including NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, and speaks or consults on topics ranging from AI, SETI, privacy, and invention to national security. His nonfiction book about the information age, The Transparent Society, won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Brin’s latest nonfiction work is Polemical Judo. Visit him at www.davidbrin.com.
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Disputation Arenas - David Brin
Disputation Arenas
Harnessing Conflict
and Competitiveness
for Society’s Benefit
By David Brin
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2012 David Brin
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Table of Contents
I. A New Kind of Dispute Resolution
II. Toward a New Dispute Resolution Process
III. A Concept for Implementation
Phase Zero: Developing the System
Phase One: Inviting Disputants
Phase Two: Structured Participation
Phase Three: Presentation and Critique of Manifestos
Phase Four: The Paraphrasing Challenge
Phase Five: Let the Battle Begin!
Phase Six: Decision-Making
Conclusion
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I
A New Kind of Dispute Resolution
We frequently hear how the Internet is going to transform society and people’s lives more than any innovation since the printing press. Beyond all the trendy applications in art and commerce, the electronic realm is seen as a vital locus for developing new kinds of dispute resolution, and even law. Some enthusiasts perceive it as a way to bypass older systems of social authority, allowing users to create their own self-organizing structures. Indeed, the Internet's rapid development seems only surpassed by its potential.
Still, far too many enthusiasts focus on just one side of the equation...the technology. The other half -- the human half -- is far more important.
How do real people behave, when confronted by opportunities and capabilities they never imagined? History shows that new media don't always liberate. At first, printing enflamed Europe's 16th Century religious hatreds. In the 1930s, burgeoning exposure to radio and loudspeakers helped consolidate the power of tyrants. Only time, and the development of user maturity in a competitive environment, eventually made these media capable of fostering cooperative citizenship.
In the long run, the Internet will serve us best if it enhances two seemingly contradictory traits -- individualism and accountability. This may seem an odd blend, but their synergy brought about nearly everything we cherish about the modern era. Exploring ways to utilize this synergy, in order to create new systems of dispute resolution, will be the aim of this article.
The Fecundity of Chaos
First, if you want to see clues about our future, step away from your computer screen. Go outside and stand near a four-way intersection that's