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Re: one of the best reads Fw: This Week's Clue: Consensus Comes from the Market
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dlo-@insync.net
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Aug 24, 2001 11:33 PDT
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So this geek gets a recomendation, because he can call someone a moron? Where
have I heard this kind of "get it" bunk before?
The dot bust wasn't a freak of nature. It wasn't a mistake. It was the end of
the geek portion of the adoption curve. We are now standing around waiting for
mass market adoption. It will yeild at least 20x more than the geek adoption
phase. Once we get mass market adoption all this geek culture crud we call the
Internet hype will be wrong.
I'm more inclined to accept Lessig's veiw that code is law. Regardless of what
is lawless, the code is law. The code is mass market adoption. Yes, the
blackmarket creates a tax, but the blackmarket also creates situations where
the goverment can take away your civil rights. Asset forfitures are not a tax.
They are but one loss of our freedoms. The blackmarkets enable the regressive
police state like terrorism--the bombed flight that gave rise to the airport
security tape, and anticipated terrorism that has closed once open military
bases.
The Internet is an extension of control technologies. The Arpanet was built to
be survivable, so that control could asserted.
Network administrators usurp control from their user base. Most corprations
have policies about loading outside sourced software. In more than one employer
it has kept me from doing my job while I collected my pay. The people that I
work with now are lucky if they get to do anything their first two weeks on the
job. My DSL account prevents me from reaching my ISP's news server. It may look
free and unenforcable, but that is just a perception.
Yes, the CFO of a former company told the geeks to stop streaming during the
business day. Streaming did not stop. And, the administrator's did not turn it
off. The company sold security software. Nothing was going to stop these guys
from streaming. But, this freedom only extends to a limited number of geeks.
These same freedoms are not extended to the mass market.
When I wanted to write a book on how to create conceptual models of
applications, I was reminded that the mass market does not model. They do not
solve problems. They have no troubleshooting approaches. They cannot be free in
a network, because freedom is a solution rather than a documented process. It
is testing. It is experimenting.
Stop listening to geek culture as the way. It was the way. But it gave way.
Grudgingly. The next way may not have been found yet--the mass market adoption
driver--, but the old way is certainly not it.
David
Lockemail.insync.net
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