Sorry if I stole some of your thunder there old chap. I don't think I
"misunderstood the concept" but rather found it wanting and moved the
discussion on. The focus was your precis of the term "hinternet" which
I found very interesting and so addressed.
Where it landed (perhaps thanks to TeMPOraL) was actually quite
exciting in my opinion, that, in the words of The Jam:
"the public wants what the public gets."
That's something different from the tired old "internet ain't what it
used to be!" trope. Isn't it? : That the entire "market theory" of the
internet (and maybe technology in general) is mostly myth.
> real communism has clearly never been tried!
Not sure I follow how a vibrant, diverse, bottom-up, self-governed
Internet would be akin to "communism", but then you've got your own
windmills to tilt at too.
Where it landed (perhaps thanks to TeMPOraL) was actually quite exciting in my opinion, that, in the words of The Jam:
That's something different from the tired old "internet ain't what it used to be!" trope. Isn't it? : That the entire "market theory" of the internet (and maybe technology in general) is mostly myth.> real communism has clearly never been tried!
Not sure I follow how a vibrant, diverse, bottom-up, self-governed Internet would be akin to "communism", but then you've got your own windmills to tilt at too.