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Monday, June 12, 2006
Overseen 
Gilder redux
| | "We have an obsolete mass media. The mass media, with their centralized systems, broadcasting to millions of people, necessarily seek the lowest common denominator: our morbid fears and anxieties. So, almost by force of gravity, broadcast technology leads to an ever more immoral culture. A computer culture will supplant this broadcast culure. |
| | "Computer culture resembles less broadcast culture than book culture. The book business is drastically different than the video business. There are 55,000 trade books published every year in the U.S., and half of those, by the way, are religious books. |
| | "The difference is that books are narrowcast. They respond to primary interests rather than lowest common denominators. The book business has something for everybody. Narrowcasting is much more effective. This is why video in the future will resemble the book business, rather than the current broadcast model. |
| | "TV is in a predicament where it takes more and more advertising to support less and less content of less and less substance. And I think we will escape that predicament with computer technology, which is becoming the cheapest technology in the world. It is computers' cheapness that will allow them to blow away the TV business in coming years." |
| | What matters is not the neutrality but the net. There won't be any broadband net if no one can make money investing in it. Only if the net is narrow will allocation be needed. So ironically net neutrality laws are the most likely current cause of an un-neutral net. |
| | Not sure I agree with that, as written; but I've always liked George's respect for the good work only business can do. Meanhwhile, for a great sum-up on Net Neutrality, here's Adriana. |
Countdown to zero
Let's hope so
| | In short order, the $100 Laptop will debut in the developing world - running on the aforementioned free operating system, Linux. WiMaxx networks will blanket this world, just as cell networks now blanket Kenya and other parts of Africa. (Almost everyone I run across in Kenya has a cell phone - including people who live in Kibera, the largest slum in East Africa.) The developing world will be connected at a level unimaginable two years ago. Millions of new voices will join the conversation. Issues and problems will be revealed, discussed and solved in those very conversations. |
| | Governments will fall, corruption be revealed, new ideas explode and lives be radically changed as the Generous Web weaves its magic throughout the planet. |
| | Not sure about the Wimax part. But I'm with Bill when he says, |
| | I'm not Pollyanna-ish enough to believe that the Generous Web will solve all the problems of the planet. But it does have the potential to solve many. |
PodTech gets Scobleized
| | Dave Burke: Am I going to re-subscribe to PodTech with the addition of Scoble? Uh...yeah. |
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