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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.