> > The REAL battle, the battle no one wants the public to become aware
> > of, is whether the average folks will be allowed to provide content to the
> > world, or whether only those willing to pay considerable funds TO SOME
> > ENTITY like an ISP or Cable provider, will be allowed to provide content.
>
> Excellent post, Javilk :)
Thank you. And an excellent article you point out! More of us should
read it.
> People interested in a good perspective on this ought to check out John
> Perry Barlow's essay "Death from Above"
http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/death_from_above.html).
> Interesting analysis of the mentality and issues (even if a bit dated
> now).
Dated? Perhaps the statistics...
>>>
I sometimes wonder which of these I really want to win,
but I'm pretty sure which one is going to. It's B-52's vs. punji
sticks. It's machine against nature. Sooner or later, nature takes the
game.
No matter how much death they rained from above, the bombers lost Viet
Nam. They're going to lose Cyberspace too. For exactly the same
reasons.
<<<
The above conclusion is not dated in my opinion; water still flows
down hill, and erodes the hill in the process. The question, is who will
be the big losers. I can well imagine some entrepreneurial kid coming up
with something like "gravitronic" transmitters that are easy to hook up to
your home computer, and each having a range of a few hundred light years.
Before you know it, the prospects of unregulated information transfer will
render the web as dead as telegraphy is in comparison to telephones or
e-mail for routine two way communication!
That will ONLY happen if the present web is NOT a full bi-directional
communications system. If the web satisfies our needs, then any new media
will face a long and hard uphill struggle, as did FM over AM. Without it,
it will be an unstable node ready to topple the minute something better
arrives on the scene, and often sadly out of sync as new fads sweep the
populace.
If you doubt that, just look at the growth in programs broadcasting
home video clips and security camera clips. Humans, stupid and clever,
can easily amuse other humans just as well, and at times even better, than
the high cost productions of media magnates. (And if Steven Speilburg's
early home movies are any indication, can displace them as well!)
Water flows down hill. Remember that. Water flows down hill. And
people talk, dance, and amuse their friends in PARTICIPATORY INTERACTIVE
conversations, drawing maps and diagrams, telling tales, doing skits, etc.
The media that provides that kind of interaction will win in the long run,
and anyone opposing that will sooner or later be left out as people flock
to new interactive media. We saw that in cave paintings that flickered
and moved in the wavering light of the fire, in the carousing at the local
Barron's table, at our party last Christmas, at the local pub (for those
who drink, I don't.) and on the talk radio show we listened to yesterday.
It is as inevitable as water flowing down hill. And like the minor flood
caused by a distand neighbor of ours, any attempt to dam up the water, or
our mirth, is eventually doomed to failure, wiping out whomever stands in
the way.
So, telecom companies, if you stand in our way, you may well make
some money today, but come tomorrow, you too will be left behind like
Western Union and its specialized telegraphy system.
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