Aah, that brings up a rant I haven't ranted in quite a while; I
wonder how it's changed over the past few years.
The established capitalists -- near-monopoly telcos, big media,
big business, all those
post-Minoans I was talking about (with
apologies to any real post-Minoans who may be reading) have
always attacked the Internet with the same Malthusian voracity
they've used for everything else.
(Thomas Malthus worked for the British East India Company, and
wrote a lot about scarcity of resources; some say he was the
first to popularize that idea. Western business has operated
under that model ever since.)
When data bandwidth is growing at such a rate that (in the long
view) it may as well be infinite, the only thing left to fight
over is human bandwidth -- the ability of a human being to pay
attention to data they are presented with. On today's Internet,
that "data" is usually advertisements.
Woah. This is an interesting new direction; I don't think I've
ever tied the advertising rant to the post-Malthus rant in quite
this way before. More on this later (but please respond!)
A few days ago, my friend Neil gave a brief answer to the question "Spamfighter, howcome you got into spamfighting?" I get asked that a lot, too -- and while my answers vary depending on my mood at the time (and usually go on way longer than the questi
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