Amazing but true — the Internet will celebrate its 40th birthday on September 2nd; read this article enclosed by clicking here.
And amazingly true still — TODAY is the worst day the Internet will ever have. Why? Because tomorrow — more users will be on the Internet- there will be more bloggers on the Internet; there will be more content available tomorrow — and more bandwidth and services and innovation, as well.
This is the amazing thing about the Internet — it lives — it self improves — it embodies the network effect; it is dynamic and growing and for the most part,good. It gets better every single day.
We must keep the Internet OPEN — we must keep on investing in its platform and architecture and infrastructure — the Internet should never have walled gardens (trust me — I know that walled gardens will work for a time — but long term make no sense); we must embrace innovation and risk investment to keep the momentum going. The Internet will get better — faster — cheaper — tomorrow. I believe; I am an evangelist.
There are now more than 1.2 billion people accessing the Internet on a global scale — the Internet as a medium and communications platform has had the greatest social adoption of any technology and service the world has ever experienced.
My first exposure to data communications was in 1976 — I first got active online in 1990 — I was proud to be part of the team at AOL that got America Online. Time flies when you are having fun — happy birthday Internet.
Fitting that the internet be born out of the Summer of Love.
Just in the past two weeks I have officially been swept away into the ocean of the new media revolution and am now immersed in the swells and sways of it’s tides and waves.
It happened rather suddenly if expected with the discovery one evening of a new Lemonheads album; a covers album; “Varshons,” it’s absolutely ridiculous.
Then discovery of New Depeche Mode and their video “Peace” one of the best things I’ve ever seen in my life. And they are taking over the world ;-J And it just keeps on coming. I now see 2009 as THE year for new music releases charting the paths ahead.
Discovery of those music videos slowly brought me around to last week when, at a point, I realized that every music video ever made at the beck and call, plus interviews, and obscure concert and other performance video. It’s almost like the Grateful Dead’s allowing the bootleggers to record their concerts and share with others This time it’s world-wide and with everything ever made.
Tracking in on three recent,important concepts of things to come;
Firstly; everything is about to get very separated and spread out very quickly for a time as everyone will be working in micro groups on projects for the web. My generation is not accustomed to working with others, together in teams, jointly efforting toward shared goals. That is resisted; not something that many Americans have ever done much of, or expect to do.
This is a very good thing for those individuals who are able to build large, diverse teams because will be virtually unstoppable.
From my humble perspective that their exists an almost opposite concept of venture in enterprise in our shared consciousness. Says something like, “It is the concept or idea that holds all of the value and chance for success. The more people who know about the concept the less chance of success.” It follows that nobody tells too many people, so it will be mainly groups of two, three, four close individuals working to make everything happen.
It will also become harder to get help from others outside the group because others will be in other small groups working frantically. Everyone is about to get even more really-er busier than we are now. We’ll probably just leave off speaking in public because we are crazy, running-on-fumes, and have an amazing amount of things to do.
We’d like to interact with others; just don’t have the time now. “Maybe in about five years get together and get some coffee or something; catch up”
Strange thing about this is that it does not exist in reality. It’s not any kind of established business model based on knowledge of industry or anything; just elemental human behavior amongst my peers. Exclusivity. Whooops
Bad for you. Good for me
Second concept; when this thing really gets going; human civilization itself begins to do whatever it does exponentially faster (I avoid using term, “move forward,” here cause not sure that’s what were doing. More like either revoultininzing or not revolutionizing. That, I think, is part of what you get at when encourage individuals to invest, take risks, avoid exclusivity and continue imagining and conceptualizing then causing those images and concepts to exist in reality.
Thirdly; just yesterday, very soon evident Hip-Hop revolution 2.0
’09 will also see a new Dr. Dre disk, “Detox.” ;-j
Break a Leg; … oh; wait; don’t do that; cause we’re going to be way to busy for that ;-jeff
Good thing is – for you, I mean – that Walled Gardens worked long enough to pad the Net Worth!