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Friedman's cycle of public opinion and durable law now revert to us: it is up to us to use our knowledge, to regain our bearings, to stir others to do the same, and to found a new beginning... The Berlin Wall fell for many reasons, but above all it was because the people of East Berlin said, "No more!"

Public spaces to act on that will. What is at stake is the dominant principle of social ordering is an information civilization and our rights as individuals and societies to answer the questions Who knows? Who decides? Who decides who decides?

If democracy is to be replenished in the coming decades, it is up to us to rekindle the sense of outrage and loss over what is being taken from us. In this I do not mean only our "personal information." What is at stake here is the human expectation of sovereignty over one's own life and authorship of one's own experience. What is at stake is the inward experıence trom which we form the will to will and the public-