POINT – 8. The Internet’s three virtues
http://www.worldofends.com/
Taken from; ‘World of Ends’ – What the Internet Is
by Doc Searls and David Weinberger
In a Nutshell – The Nutshell -
1. The Internet isn’t complicated
2. The Internet isn’t a thing. It’s an agreement.
3. The Internet is stupid.
4. Adding value to the Internet lowers its value.
5. All the Internet’s value grows on its edges.
6. Money moves to the suburbs.
7. The end of the world? Nah, the world of ends.
8. The Internet’s three virtues:
a. No one owns it
b. Everyone can use it
c. Anyone can improve it
9. If the Internet is so simple, why have so many been so boneheaded about it?
10. Some mistakes we can stop making already
For those without the TIME – READ; Scroll-Down and Read (Especially Point 8, 8a, 8b, 8c)
INTERESTING POINTS:
“The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it,”
POINT – 8. The Internet’s three virtues
(I have ‘Re-Worded’ this just a little for my own interpretation)
8.a Nobody owns it
It can’t be owned, even by the companies whose “pipes” it passes through, because it is an agreement, not a thing. The Internet not only is in the public domain, it is a public domain.
8.b Everyone can use it
The Internet was built to include everyone on the planet.
You don’t need a system administrator to let you participate. The Internet purposefully leaves permissions out of the system.
8.c Anybody can improve it
Anyone can make the Internet a better place to live, work and raise up kids. It takes a real blockhead with a will of iron to make it worse.
In the same way the agreement about how to encode images on paper enabled fax machines to use telephone lines without requiring any changes to the phone system itself.
The creators of these services (email and newsgroups) didn’t simply come up with end-based applications, and they sure didn’t tinker with the Internet protocol itself.
