SUPERNOVA Group Blog is up and already there's lots of good talk around the subject of de-centralization. This is a subject dear to my heart as I keep asking the same questions. For instance, what if every Ecademy member had their own website with it's own blog? What would Ecademy look like then? You can ask similar questions about PDAs and Cellphones. What if there were 100 times as many cellphones in the world, each with 100 times the power, a camera and all linked to instant update web pages? What if on the end of every broadband connection was a server shipping as much content out as the owner was sucking in? What if every broadband connection had a WiFi access point slung off it sharing the bandwidth? What if every SME and LE had a web service link to it's accounting package and stock control so that orders were placed, products shipped and general ledger reconciliations done without ever involving banks, distributors and other intermediaries? What if every CCTV was webcam? And if the powers of Awe and Boredom won;t let us do that, what if every CCTV had a webcam next to it? What if every phone was a webcam?

While all this is happening we'll still need aggregators and concentrators to help us make sense of it all. So Websites are de-centralized and democratized but that leaves space for Google both with the main search and with Google News. The challenge for us is to come up with end user tools to facilitate all this and interesting centralized tools that feed back into it and help us understand what's happening. And the best tools will feed back on all this and enable new forms of emergent behaviour. [from: JB Ecademy]


[ << The view from the dark side ] [ World Sousveillance Day >> ]
[ 09-Dec-02 7:46pm ]