James Gleick diskuterar hur mycket som förändrades med Internet i intervju på Salon:
It’s still slightly surprising to people to remember that as recently as 1994 most people not only didn’t have e-mail, but they didn’t really know what e-mail was, and it didn’t occur to them that they were ever going to have it.
I remember it all vividly, because I started an Internet company in the summer of 1993. And I remember talking to my friends about it, and people thought I was nuts.
I would talk to lawyers, and I would say: I think it’s possible that in a while, maybe in a few decades, every law firm will be able to send e-mail, just as now they use the fax machine. And my lawyer friends would roll their eyes and humor me.
Han polariserar mellan stora kommersiella aktörer och emergenta nätverk av småskaliga aktörer. De stora kommersiella, centraliserade nätkonglomeraten ser han som telefonbolagsliknande kolosser. Och det är här han hittar blogging:
And so suddenly Napster, which one day was a strange grass-roots dormitory start-up, was the place where everybody was. And then it’s dead, and you can see it as a victim of a different kind of centralized force, the record industry. In each of these domains, there’s just as much tension caused by grass-roots disorganized amateurs as there ever was, and we can only hope that that’s going to continue. There’s always something new: weblogs or whatever the amateur flavor of the minute is.
Länk via Cory Doctorow.
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