Computers, Privacy & the Constitution

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 Imagine the walled off garden that was once AOL (and its many predecessors). In some ways the fact that we did not end up with many different proprietary networks each with its own subscriptions and limited interconnectivity is just a fluke. Without the timely advent of the World Wide Web and powerful browsers whose distribution was free and simple, the internet as we currently know it may not have existed. The very tools which put AOL into the height of its popularity, are also the ones that signaled the end for its business model (AOL started out as a proprietary network - an online gaming company - long before the WWW). Imagine if Tim Berners-Lee had simply said "this is good enough."

-- KateVershov - 28 May 2009

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In discussing the issues related to cloud computing, you seem to raise and then dismiss several possible solutions, noting them to be insufficient. Is this to say that there is no easy solution to reverse the trend of moving in the direction of cloud computing, and we should just accept its coming (whether or not it is appropriate now)? Or would even a partial push with one of the incomplete solutions be preferrable to simply giving in to cloud computing?

-- JonathanBonilla - 03 Jun 2009

 
 
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