<br><br>SMALL Change --> Big leap!<br>The future internet is nothing but the same as the current one with few twinks - small changes that may have big (business or technological) impacts. No one is expected to bank or coordinate worldwide big changes. It is about being disruptive. Just like the human brain, it still maintains the basic old parts while adding new (smarter) layers.<br>
There will be no day that one will say, today we have upgraded to the FI.<br><br>Someone once said, too much government is bad government. That is the case of the Internet and a lesson that governments may learn from it. People will always come up with new ideas and if they work, others may adopt them. Current FI R&D projects will never be "the" solution.<br>
<br>CENTRALIZATION<br>What worries me about the Internet is its actual centralization. Take away few search engines and most users won´t get their work done. Hierarchy as Jon talked about is good, but I guess he meant it at the structure level. This hierarchy is missing where it equally matters: the content and service levels.<br>
<br>May be the notion of federations, contexts, turfs, societies, or whatever you call them, is the way ahead to break away from such centralized business model. If like nature, the internet favors the fittest, then we are doomed with a centralized structure.<br>
<br>CONTROL<br>Governments, transport systems, banking systems, "telecom systems", education systems, and others, like to think they have control and achieve predictability. We are lucky they did not design the Internet because they would have used to it to gain more control and kept to themselves as a secret advantage or tool.<br>
<br>The internet design community saw design ideas as more important than control and today the internet may be seen as the first real autonomic system.<br><br>BIG PLAYERS<br>Many big players are today involved. Some are making money and others see their shares dissipate. The big ones seem to dictate the changes. They facilitate what they want users to have (make ebook readers, take fiber to your home to sell you content, ..) it would be interesting to evaluate to what extent their silent decisions impact the FI. My opinion is they are the ones who are designing it right now.<br>
<br><br>The internet borrowed a great deal from areas such as economy, transport, etc. to build its inner working mechanisms. Those systems have been around longer than the internet. I would suggest that if those areas are going to benefit from the Internet <br>
it won´t be at the structural level (routing, buffering etc..), but rather at the community, cooperation, security, information, levels. The internet shows that:<br><br>1) a simple trust model may work and give its participant many benefits;<br>
2) even when there are no guarantees by the members, the overall system may still deliver;<br>3) when each of us contributes with a small resource, the overall system may outperform any big system;<br>4) people like free things even if they do not work well;<br>
etc.....<br><br>To complement Jon´s thoughts, "higher level" Internet lessons may be best to use in other areas rather than its underlying mechanisms.<br><br>DJamel <br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Jon Crowcroft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jon.Crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank">Jon.Crowcroft@cl.cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I spend a lot of time reviewing<br>
stuff about the future internet<br>
then its raining on a sunday afternoon<br>
so i wrote down what i really think:-<br>
<a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Ejac22/out/fie.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jac22/out/fie.pdf</a><br>
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then i played the guitar to clam down<br>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsJD5_nX5RE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsJD5_nX5RE</a><br>
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</font></blockquote></div><br>Crucial public systems deliver food, energy, transport,<br>housing and so on. Three systems seem like low-hanging<br>fruit when it comes to re-application of the ideas behind<br>Internet:<br>