Mark Danner's piece in this weekend's NY Times magazine gives us a frightening and concrete example of something I like to talk about but I generally do so in a more vague and less frightening way, namely that it's super important as a matter of national security that we understand and begin to utilize organizing and information-sharing technologies. The article tells us that Osama Bin Laden started out in jihadism by organizing names and contact information of mujahideen into one large database, a "qaeda," if you will. In fact, that database was so important, he named his whole organization after it.