Tim Berners-Lee has a critically important posting which gives a key understanding to the totality of post-WWW technological evolution. Tim Berners-Lee proposes a three-phased evolution of the internet/web: 1. The internet (III = International Information Infrastructure) as the interconnecting of computers 2. The web (WWW) as the interconnecting of documents 3. The GGG (literally: Global… Continue reading
Date archives "December 2007"
Decoding Liberation: On the political implications of free software
Decoding Liberation is a new book that is creating a lot of buzz in different mailing lists. It is written by Samir Chopra and Scott D. Dexter, both of the City University of New York. Because of the obligatory huge price tag on academic books, it has generated a huge discussion about the need to… Continue reading
Using the P2P-based cyberinfrastructure as a weapon against global warming?
The general internet infrastructure that we love so much because it enables peer to peer dynamics, is also itself part of the problem in causing global warming. How can we preserve this important infrastructure under the pressure of the environmental cost? This issue is causing some p2p-advocates sleepless nights, so it is with great joy… Continue reading
Towards Reputation Rights
As part of the Yale Symposium on Reputation Economies, participant Auren Hoffman, who is also CEO of Rapleaf, proposes a set of 3 reputation rights worth defending and fighting for. Auren Hoffman on Consumer Control in a Data-Driven World: “The amount of data collected on you increases every year. And recently, the slope of the… Continue reading