The future of the internet

[hannes]

I don´t know where to post this.


"How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle"

An article from a former AutoDesk-Programmer and internet pioneer. He has changed from a prophetic euphoria towards some darker perception of internets possible future. Many of the things that will be invented by the industrie now appear for themself as something usefull and alluring, like no spam etc. The upcoming change is almost unnoticed by the technical naive.
He describe the singel components in detail.
Better to know these things and if necessary to make the right choice about which Operating System is running your machine. I don´t know if there will be anything between open source and open source.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/

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[gone]

I haven’t read this document carefully, it’s too big for the moment. It seems though such internet issues were always inevitable when subject to transmission via proprietary networks, i.e. the Telecoms companies.

The way I see it, it doesn’t matter whether you dump Windows OS for Unix or MS Office for Open Source Office, you’re still going to be subject to whatever rules are put in place by the Telecoms companies and their regulators (Pentagon, et al.)

The only way to maintain internet integrity is to bypass the Telecom companies altogether. People make a big fuss about wi-fi, but there’s essentially nothing different about it to the old ways. There’s still a Dark Company between peer and peer. The only way forward is REAL wi-fi, along the lines of short wave radio that could reach from my terminal, through an independent server to some guy in Sri Lanka. I suspect this, or what this is a metaphor for will be the next step in the internet.

Ownership corrupts and Absolute Ownership corrupts absolutely.