On 2005/11/09, at 0:11, Nathan Newman wrote:
>> So Boyle does miss a lot.
>
> No, he doesn't miss anything.
-Boyle is talking about the 15th anniversary of the "web". _Not_ about -the 35th or so anniversary of the internet. - -And this is the reason why the corps won't see the next thing coming -either. Because they _can't_ imagine (and neither can the scientist) -how people connect new technologies with old needs.
And the web was itself created by two government institutions-- CERN in Europe and the first graphical browser at the NCSA in Illinois.
And the scientists had a very clear idea about how to promote this new technology, which is why they fought hard to keep corporate control away from it until it was fully developed.
Boyle is quite correct that the current hands-off attitude by government means that there's little room for non-commercial leaps, even as patents and copyrights are strangling a lot of innovation.
Nathan Newman