Just ran across the gem below while wading through reams of backed up emails. I
can't even tell who wrote it.
Whoever it is described IETF as the "single largest repository of sane
understanding of the social consequences of the Internet."
Social consequences, eh? Take that, all you economists, psychologists,
historians, sociologists, law professors, and other rabble who think you have
something to contribute. Who needs you? If I can design a protocol and make a
computer hum, I must know all there is to know about the social consequences of
the Internet.
I have clearly been going about this all wrong. I will no longer read about such
things as network externalities, cost models, property rights, laws,
institutions, user behavior, regulations, and the historical evolution of large
technhical systems. Surely the clue to the social consequences of the Internet
is to be found deep within some RFC I haven't seen before...
> > Thousands of people think it [IETF] still is...thousands also think that it
> > is the largest single repository of sane understanding of the the
> > social consequences of the Internet.
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