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  • Internet as gift economy – protocols on the web = free, can’t be patented
  • Protocols: socials protocols (manners), public protocols and internet/technological protocols
  • Where is the money on the internet with this gift economy? Building the services > providing the content?
  • Mediation vs protocols = internet as a democracy?
  • Great Firewall of China
  • Limits of technology and how we interact with it
  • Importance of mobility, flexibility and fluidity
  • How does power/modes of control operate in this new system? How does resistance work?
  • Flatness – everything is equally distanced
  • Culture of building vs culture of dismantling = creating meaning from destruction + taking what we agree with and building on top of that
  • Distributed responsibility
  • Protocol is the basis of the web – social practices: what do I give, how do I share it, why should we share it?
  • Because protocols are social they are negotiable
  • Internet standards and RFCs = transparency, flatness, democracy
  • DNS = centralised, tree model
  • Alternative forms of management, eg, Army command control vs terrorism management systems
  • Bottom-up models – reshaping of forms in new contexts
  • Spying on yourself and normative behaviour
  • Conceptions vs eventual use, eg telephone
  • The virtual and the actual: actualised future is real, but everything in the virtual core is true – don’t tell me  you weren’t thinking about Alice Cullen!
  • Don’t ever give your money to anyone who says they know.

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