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- Tuesday, April 05, 2005
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Peer to Peer
is currently getting a lot of attention.
I like this piece in the Guardian about it, here's a choice quote..
"If you look back over the history of technology, one thing stands out above all others, namely that the inventors of radical technologies rarely foresee the applications that people will find for their inventions.
Marconi conceived of radio as a point-to-point communications technology rather than broadcast (one to many) technology. Henry Ford thought he had invented a way of making motor cars, whereas in fact he invented a way of manufacturing products in huge volumes at low marginal cost.
And the geniuses who conceived the internet thought they were inventing a way of enabling folks to log in remotely to mainframe computers, whereas in fact they designed a technology for enabling us to send email, spin the World Wide Web, girdle the earth with a zillion lines of personal communication - and, yes, share music and video files."
