http://cogdogblog.com/2005/04/29/horseless-carriage/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:01:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cogdogblog.com/2005/04/29/horseless-carriage/comment-page-1/#comment-1272 Alan Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:00:35 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2005/04/29/a-blog-is-a-blog-and-a-car-is-a-horseless-carriage/#comment-1272 Darn, Scott, this is why I respect you so much. I end up typing first, thinking later... Yes, my Al Gore sarcasm was vintage 1994-95 when what we take for granted now was being pitched with great zeal. So I stand corrected that the metaphor has decreased in stupidity as that publi funded infrastracture has enabled just about all of what I enjoy most of the net today, and has made the possibiltiy of the on ramps, off ramps, communities for open source, etc. Darn, Scott, this is why I respect you so much. I end up typing first, thinking later… Yes, my Al Gore sarcasm was vintage 1994-95 when what we take for granted now was being pitched with great zeal. So I stand corrected that the metaphor has decreased in stupidity as that publi funded infrastracture has enabled just about all of what I enjoy most of the net today, and has made the possibiltiy of the on ramps, off ramps, communities for open source, etc.

]]> http://cogdogblog.com/2005/04/29/horseless-carriage/comment-page-1/#comment-1271 Scott Leslie Fri, 29 Apr 2005 17:53:09 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2005/04/29/a-blog-is-a-blog-and-a-car-is-a-horseless-carriage/#comment-1271 You know, the more I've thought about it, the less I've come to hate the 'information superhighway' term, and I think Al Gore took a big drubbing on the term unfairly. I understand your disdain for hype, but the nice thing about the term 'information superhighway' was that it had lots of good connotations about the network backbones as public goods, just like highways - things that it made sense for public money to be used to fund becuase, just like highways did in an earlier age, the networks would become a keep piece of facilitating infrastructure that spurred on economic growth and provided 'mobility' to the citizens. And now that we're seeing major commercial ISPs making moves to curtail types of content on their networks, and the possibilities of balkanization etc, it begins to me too look like a less stupid metaphor than people actually thought. You know, the more I’ve thought about it, the less I’ve come to hate the ‘information superhighway’ term, and I think Al Gore took a big drubbing on the term unfairly. I understand your disdain for hype, but the nice thing about the term ‘information superhighway’ was that it had lots of good connotations about the network backbones as public goods, just like highways – things that it made sense for public money to be used to fund becuase, just like highways did in an earlier age, the networks would become a keep piece of facilitating infrastructure that spurred on economic growth and provided ‘mobility’ to the citizens. And now that we’re seeing major commercial ISPs making moves to curtail types of content on their networks, and the possibilities of balkanization etc, it begins to me too look like a less stupid metaphor than people actually thought.

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