Thanks for forwarding the pointer. You may also be interested in http://rmf.vc/IPPvD -- Purpose vs. Discovery – which is another departure from conventional thinking about network capacity and purpose.
From: michelsub2004@gmail.com [mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Michel Bauwens
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 22:44
To: p2p-foundation
Cc: Sepp Hasslberger
Subject: Fwd: Future Internet is not a net
Dear Sepp,
the ideas of Bob Frankston, on 'abolishing pipes', make a lot of sense, I wonder if you could present them to our readers?
Michel---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bob Frankston <Bob19-0501@bobf.frankston.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:00 AM
Subject: Future Internet is not a net
To: Michel Bauwens <Michelsub2004@gmail.com>It was good talking to you at ContactCon.
I happened across your old post asking for comments on future of the Internet.
I go into these issues in my various writings but it may be too radical for your audience since I don’t accept the idea of a network as anything more than an emergent property. Instead I start with relationships and factor out exchanging bits as a plumbing issue.
You might be interested in http://rmf.vc/ThinkingOutsideThePipe as well as the longer essays I point to. In http://rmf.vc/AmbientConnectivity I provide a framing focused on enabling applications rather than the networking itself.
The limitations of the Internet are solved not by engineering a solution to each one but by a dynamic process. I first started writing about that in 1997 when I wrote a chapter about the limits of Moore’s law – http://rmf.vc/BeyondLimits.
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