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...-Re: Fragments of Network Criticism [Felix Stalder]
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change is overrated. And so is speed. In spite of all hype, nothing
happens over night, and now that commerce has taken over as the main force
of media development, we can expect that not much will change anymore.
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True innovation is the anti-thesis of business, which is good in
optimizing but bad in coming up with surprises.
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the change will follow paradigm which are already laid out.
Centralizing of control, decentralizing of production.
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One of the things in the big puzzle that could introduce another round
of true innovation is electronic money, cheap, private, distributed.
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Independent and interconnected, all communicating through a
common protocol. Money as a common language,
not very uplifting, indeed, but very powerful for real deep change.
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there is simply not much to win for the gatekeepers by undermining
the very foundation of their gate keeping.
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Don't worry about the technology, this it can be done, for engineers,
things are easy. Maybe its as easy as remebering and updating
some long forgotten technology, something from those optimistic 90s, thus,
creating autonomous zones, not temporary but self-sustainable.
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Les faits sont faits.
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:28:52 -0400
To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net
From: Felix Stalder
Subject: Re: Fragments of Network Criticism
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