Archive for the 'The Future' Category

19
May

The Open Source Economy

This is a great talk from the TED Conference. Yochai Benkler, a thought-leader on networks and collaboration  talks about how the Internet is laying the groundwork for the next phase of human organization.

In many ways it seems like we’re coming full circle to a pre-industrial age sensibility by doing things that we like to do as opposed to doing things that we must. Basically we’re contributing to the commons as individuals strictly for the love of the activity and the community and not strictly in pursuit of profit. We’re even beginning to trade goods and services directly without currency as an intermediary.

16
May

The Long View

In 1995 Netscape was on the rise having created the first commercially viable Web browser. For the first time regular people could use the Internet. They didn’t know why they wanted to use it, but they could.

That browser combined with the earlier acquiescence of the technocrats from the National Science Foundation who managed the Internet backbone and the technonerds who were it’s primary users to commercial communications made it possible for the Internet to take the path that it has.

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