indeed. every domestic computer for several years can be a web server, on os x just tick a box and anything in your sites folder is now live online. always imagined a future where instead of server farms there would just be lots of small servers everywhere, where if your server breaks for a day or 2 then the sky really isn't going to fall. main reasons this has not happened:
1. when infrastructure rolled out they assumed we were consumers not creators or sharers so bandwidth down much greater than up 2. while computers can be web servers at click of a checkbox little has been done on the domestic end to teach/show/build apps that utilise this, i think because the ISP industry was invented and took on this role 3. tech managers are terrified of the idea of everyone's computer being their server, because i). falls outside of existing management models ii) distributes skill and expertise away from professional silos, iii) the idea of everyone being a peer in a technical, institutional and cultural environment falls too far outside of existing paradigms. hopefully it will change. For example telephones and their history of implementation and use show a way, but I'm not optimistic only because of how conservative, entrenched and powerful existing practices are. On 17/06/2009, at 6:50 AM, Heath wrote: > An interesting idea, being able to share files, photo's etc all > within a web browser. It could have tremendous potentional for > video...I am curious to see what happens.. cheers Adrian Miles [email protected] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
