There are two premises which appear to be ignored: 1. ownership of the wire.
While most people do actually own their synapses, very few own the physical links that support assisted communication. It's easy to forget this, but if you've ever sat at the other side of log acquisition and content filtering whether in corporate or government sector, you'll never think of the Networked World as of anything else as an experimental ant colony where you get to define the ground rules. This is important in a purely entropy (or originality) creation sense: today there are orders of magnitude fewer creators of the mental landscape, compared to the times when one could sit processing a small amount of data gathered during the day with own wetware. Think of this as braincycles/bit of data ratio. It has changed. Society is going back to mainframe computing. 2. Number of data sources. With increased connectivity, ratio of cumulative braincycles/data source has dramatically increased for those who get to publish. As number of braincycles is limited, this necessarily depletes processing services for other. less popular data sources. Sort of DoS attack (not even DDoS). This in turn, results in increased homogenization of the thinking and monoculture that everyone bitches about. Why are these two points important? Because affecting one or both is the only way to introduce a change. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
