| Amy Alexander on Sat, 4 Aug 2001 06:58:34 +0200 (CEST) |
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| [Nettime-bold] dumb internet; smart internet; dead internet... |
similar in gist to the LA times article i mentioned here last week, is this article from economy.com's "The Dismal Scientist." the article is titled, "The Death of the Internet as We Know It." http://www.dismal.com/thoughts/article.asp?aid=1316 the article discusses the internet's status as a "dumb network" with "smart terminals" (i.e. the internet has no centralized control) and takes the arguable position that this is why companies aren't able to make money from it. it then discusses how Microsoft's new .NET system is poised to place centralized control (by microsoft) within the network - potentially making Microsoft to the internet what pre-breakup AT&T was to the telecom network (and potentially putting the nails in the coffin of the current, unprofitable, "dumb"/"open" internet.) slashdot discussion of the article is here: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/03/1933221&mode=thread (slashdot newbies may want to set preferences to "highest scores first.") -- plagiarist.org Recontextualizing script-kiddyism as net-art for over 1/20 of a century. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold