is reactionary – i.e., opposing political or social change.

Power and Control. Here’s a quote from Disruptive Conversations on the next building block of the Transformative Infrastructure:

IT’S ALL ABOUT CONTROL

As early adopters and users, our frustration, though, has been that the services allowing us to publish those updates have been out of our control. Whether it’s been Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Plaxo Pulse, Skype… or… pick your service… we are locked into their infrastructure. We can’t experiment with it. We can’t tinker with it. We can’t hack on it. We can’t fix it. All we can do is pound our head against walls…