To these chapters, I would add the news that having realized that they share many of the same goals, they have begun to coordinate their efforts. That goal is shared by several projects which take a different approach, attempting to break the one-way infoflow of the Web by bringing back conferencing and hoping communities can flourish there. The most notable of these has surely been Electric Minds , which began as a bold experiment at combining conferencing with original content, live chat, and a database of other online communities. The update on Electric Minds has already been filed here. The overwhelming offers of support and ideas for carrying on the community that eventually led to its currently ongoing transformation are solid evidence of the tenacity of people who will always work to find ways to rewire a system until it works the way they need it to.
Human ingenuity is what keeps the future an open question rather than a done deal.