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I feel the same. Is like the net turned out to induce too big changes on the present society, which is based on artificial scarcity and gate-keepers. So $they t
by xorand 7y ago
I feel the same. Is like the net turned out to induce too big changes on the present society, which is based on artificial scarcity and gate-keepers. So $they try, successfully until now, to reverse this by turning the net into TV. It works great because the largest part of the population has no idea how it was before and they are at the first stages of building an immunity.
Overall is the Gutenberg press reloaded. First publish bibles in the local languages, then publish anything, like for example Leibniz, outside the usual channels (academia say), then limit the spreading of knowledge via laws and trade over boundaries. Much faster than before, but not so fast so that one individual, say, would witness both the Gutenberg press and a major effect like the USA.
- skilled 7y agoVery interesting that you mention TV, because this had been exactly my thinking process lately. It's starting to look like the goal is to fully commercialise the Web which leaves many (most) with no choice but to follow suit.
- xorand 7y agoYes, I'm sure many people think like this. Let me get back to the Gutenberg=Net analogy. I take as relevant history points (rounded numbers) - 1450 Gutenberg - 1970 Arpanet - 1500 Luther - 1990 Berners-Lee - 1700 Leibniz - 2010 Open Access, Open Science - 1800 USA - x, major event towards the freedom of the internet If we count in decades, suppose both processes as exponential and we take Gutenberg - Arpanet as the 0 point, then we see 2^t_internet = 5^t_gutenberg which suggests that the major event x would be at about 4.6 decades after the Arpanet. :)
- xorand 7y agoObscure notation. what I wanted is: t_internet - t_arpanet = 2^p t_history - t_gutenberg = 5^p where t_internet is in the range [t_arpanet, 210] (in decades) and t_history is in the range [t_gutenberg, t_arpanet] (in decades). Therefore, if a historic event related to the printing press occured at t_history time (in decades) then the equivalent event related to the net occured at t_internet (in decades), given by te formula: t_internet = t_arpanet + (t_history - t_gutenberg)^0,43067 where 0,43067 = (ln 2)/(ln 5).
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