Does the End Justify the Means?
Ken Camp,
Digital Common Sense,
Dec 30, 2003
This response to David Weinberger and Doc Searls's article 'World of Ends' challenges some now popular opinions, and especially the idea that value in a network is created at the end, not the middle. But is a smart network a bad thing? Look at Google - that's smart, isn't it? And what about the telephone system, which worked well for 100 years and was smart because it had to be. I'm not sure I buy the hard-core capitalism that underlies this item (after all, much of the internet was not created using investment dollars). As for the rest, well, food for thought.
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