On 10/17/06, Peter Triantafillou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I enjoyed all of your comments. However, I feel that all are missing the big issue: control of data/resources and manipulation.
This is the big one for me; even if google used a completely decentralized architecture internally, the system is *still* CENTRALLY owned and controlled, and subject to all the foibles of central planning / concentrated power. Just as an example, http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-01-27-n42.html . Censorship, privacy leaks, information control (which increasingly equals economic control), etc., are all "features" of centrally controlled systems that can be removed with good decentralization. For me, decentralization's true power comes more from the disruption of this type of social and economic corruption than from some subset of technology architectures. Alen _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
