Mark recently posted a video on facebook about net neutrality. As I was watching it, two of my ideas seams to crystallize.
First, what we (perhaps most) appreciate about the internet, our ability to appropriate it, is what has made it the most dangerous for large corporations. Because we are able to contribute our own content and access a multitude of other contents at our leisure, we develop a sense of control, and the impression that we have staked our own little territory.
Is it a cleaning product?
Is it a premier division football club?
Or related to coffee at the wrong time of the day?
As was recently determined at a dinner with my father and brother, the meaning of the words we use is increasingly diffuse, even though we are technically speaking the same language. If you need IP advice, do you hire a lawyer, a computer geek, or maybe Steve Jobs? Thanks to the interweb, you can ask all three simultaneously, many different questions with one click of the mouse.
Amazed at my own ability to open more tabs than can fit the firefox screen, I must admit that my virtual interconnectedness is increasing exponentially, at a rate only equalled by the number of passwords I must now remember.
I am still a little bit of an internet agnostic though, unsure that I have found the best avenue to extract my ideas.
