Re: [DotGNU]The Great Rewiring

[David Nicol]

Bill Lance wrote:
> 
> A very interesting discussion of p2p and Web Services:
> 
> http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/08/20/shirky.html?page=1

Shirky:
> For the past 100 years all of our
> two-way media has been narrow-band, which is to say I can
> only address one or two other people -- the telephone, the fax,
> letters. And all of our broadcast media are one-way: radio,
> television, and so forth. To suddenly have a two-way mass media
> threatens a huge number of vested interests who much prefer the
> bottlenecks we have. 

but previous to that, previous to amplification systems, the
broadcase media, such as they were, were two-way.  When you're
standing on a balcony addressing a crowd, the crowd can address you
back.

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