[8780] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Imminent Death of the Net As We Know It (was Re: One-way Internet?...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Walker)
Sat Dec 4 18:13:23 1993
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 17:14:19 CST
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: walkerl@med.ge.com (Larry Walker)
Exquisitely said, Dick. Thank you for saying it so well. Yes, I think this
is precisely what we are in for.
Larry
>> From: walkerl@med.ge.com (Larry Walker)
>
>> This then segues back into the recent brief discussion about Sprint's
>> Internet acccess service sans a home directory/mailbox/nntp-server and the
>> Imminent Death of the Net As We Know It (which I suspect could be true in
>> the short term; a lot of freely-provided net services _really_could_ get
>> swamped out of existence...)
>
>That brief discussion was, to my mind, all too brief (a single posting by
>Karl ... or was there followup I didn't notice ?)
>
>Anyway, Karl's posting got me thinking a bit, and I have a thesis to
>put to the net about what's coming. It describes a change that I find
>repellant in many ways, but I can also find reason to chastise myself
>for thinking that way. However I (or you) feel about it, I suspect
>it's going to happen whether or not we like it.
>
>I think changes in the net are coming that are similar to what happens
>to a town when it grows large enough that the discount stores move in.
>For want of better terms, I'll call this a change from a community model
>to a market model.
>
