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New(er) Internet, the Good Version.
Wired had a story today that really got my hopes up. I look at what we've come to 'know' as the internet and I see a lot of good things, great things, bad things, and mediocre things. In general I see the internet as an open forum, marketplace if you will, for ideas. Knowledge has the ability to be published, archived, syndicated, marketed, distributed, analyzed, and a whole lot else in ways that we, as in the human race, have never seen before. We are literally on the brink, and I find that so fascinating.
The better world is one in which we don't need to seek permission or risk punishment to do cool stuff that makes the world a better place. In the early days of the internet, a lot of people felt that we'd found that better world. Thanks to the internet's open protocols, many of the most useful innovations, from the web to instant messaging to internet telephony, emerged without developers needing anyone's permission to run their cool new code. [wired]
I think we need to understand that at this brink, we are vulnerable. We are vulnerable because we have elements of our society that I believe are at odds with what is the natural progression of our Newly Enlightened Digital Society. Commercialism and Conservatism hold little relevance in the operating models I see leading the way into our digital future. Progressive, Ideological and Liberal concepts, techniques and methods are what have proven innovation, and it's those precepts I will choose, and I hope others as well, to help me find our way. It is our way, of life, of communicating, of entertaining, of everything that is at stake. Lets really make a go at it.
9.15.2005
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