Quote of the Day | 0429
a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody’s hobby to somebody’s industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel – from open to closed system. It is a progression so common as to seem inevitable, though it would hardly have seemed so at the dawn of any of the past century’s transformative technologies, whether telephony, radio, television or film.”
Each of these technologies, Wu argued, started out as gloriously creative, anarchic and uncontrolled. But in the end each was “captured” by corporate power, usually aided and abetted by the state. `
Joh Naughton, ‘Has the internet run out of ideas already?’
[x]#10049 fan zondag 29 april 2012 @ 11:23:07
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2 kommentaren
eamelje.net op 2 mei 2012 @ 10:16:30
De Amerikaanse geschiedenis in deze ontwikkelingen is inderdaad anders dan de Europese. Behalve bij internet, opmerkelijk genoeg.
Gelkinghe op 29 april 2012 @ 14:54:52
Telefonie in den beginne open en vrij toegankelijk? Dat lijkt me een misverstand.