Friday, January 09, 2004

If a country hears the siren song of paranoia, regulation, and carrier control, other nations that don’t listen will grow much faster, deliver much better Internet connections to their businesses for much lower costs, and hence take the future...

Dangerous Ideas
Dispelling some myths about technology: Technology neither asks nor answers political questions. In a democracy, the people do. Technology merely generates and reports information.
· Moore's Lore: Blaming RFID for privacy violations is like blaming the U.S. Postal Service nine-digit zip code for letter bombs [blatantly pinched from Apple A Day: 24x7]

There may be uses for the links created within these artificial social networks... but if you want to get at the real social networks, you’re going to have to figure them out from the paths that actual feet have worn into the actual social carpet....
The market, with enough choice, has always decided policy. What’s new is users as developers are increasingly forming policy. What’s new is falling search costs and switching costs as low as click allow rapid abandonment of bad policy. What’s new is the cost of feedback, expressing demand, group forming and networking is dramatically falling to drive powerful emergent patterns."

· Many-to-Many