e8g. | at patrik's

economy driven by scarcity or attention. so many has been said about this since the roll out of telegraphy, and yet the arguments stay the same. or even worse, became blank metaphors.

recalling a line from the book "america calling" about the time when not products but costumers were seen as scarcity: the latter wouldn't pay attention to a telegraphy line to the usa, as they didn't have anyone there to call.

lets talk about the effect of policy and regulations that have come into place since 1994, or so.

still worth to read: economics of criminal enforcement of copyright | robert picard, tobias dahlström, edward humphreys, 2007

one week dedicated to the future of networking en budapest. john day, author of patterns in network architecture, provided the audience with his inside why things are not getting better: "taking crafts for science", "our idea of moving towards to simplicity is a simpler patch", "moore's law is our oil, it made us sloppy":

moore (audio/mpeg, 257 KB)

edit: discussion at tiny's place, who adds:

Moore's Law has forced us [society in general and the software academia and industry in particular] to decide for solutions that were mostly right but had no answers for a lot of important questions.

information from some other actors in the eu-scene, and the future as they see it: celtic purple book

looks like a real nice event: goto copenhagen. maybe next time. so long #gotocph

i saw it brain brian, you cut your hair. looks good ;)