This is also why, when I talked with Sen Udall's staff about SOPA, they had a hard time understanding my input. They (and presumably all the staff of folks who introduced the bill) had no idea that there is almost no such thing as a "web-page" anymore. For Nick, et al, what you see when you see a "web-page" is a composite built up from content served by many web-servers, most of which aren't even related to the site to which you navigated to see the "web-page".
Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: rcpa...@sandia.gov SIPR: rcpar...@sandia.doe.sgov.gov (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: dopa...@doe.ic.gov (send NIPR reminder) On Mar 21, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > Sorry for the double post, but I thought a bit more info from below the fold > of essay would help: > > For non-technologists, this is all a black box. That is a great success of > technology: all those layers of complexity are entirely hidden and people can > use them without even knowing that they exist at all. <snip> > > That is also why it's so hard for technologists and non-technologists to > communicate together: technologists know too much about too many layers and > non-technologists know too little about too few layers to be able to > establish effective direct communication. <snip> > > That is why the mainstream press and the general population has talked so > much about Steve Jobs' death and comparatively so little about Dennis > Ritchie's: Steve's influence was at a layer that most people could see, while > Dennis' was much deeper. <snip> > > Finally, last but not least, that is why our patent system is broken: > technology has done such an amazing job at hiding its complexity that the > people regulating and running the patent system are barely even aware of the > complexity of what they're regulating and running. <snip> > > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > From HN, a pointer to a delightfully clever essay that would be loved by Nick > and others who are often bewildered by the hacker alphabet soup of acronyms > and buzz words. > > Well, what _does_ happen when you got to a web page? > https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cnepe > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408597 > > This has the possibility of a new book that somehow makes it all reasonably > clear. Maybe. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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