Exploring Cooperation

The Internet... Governance Business People are... The Dark Side People are inherently good Is addictive! Incumbents see the Net as a virus Tech is not neutral Why should normal people care about NN? Net Neutrality Scale kills Customer service has diseconomies of scale Will disappear, as any good tech should The Net will become embedded Societal consequences are yet to be understood BH is spa time for the brain -- expand the mind Free enterprise is good Organic, emergent, decentralized innovation is important to economics and freedom The market is the only referee you can trust and count on All problems are political Chicago School thinking destroys the Internet's goodness Rely on our political leaders at your peril De-intermediate Facilitates the spread of falsehoods as well as truths; you can't predict which will prevail "We've got to get organized!"
(The Russians Are Coming) Cooperation requires the evolution of leadership We will learn the most about
Net openness and innovation
from developing world in next
15 years Tech and communications needed as tool for sustainability and survivability Beware the cloud and client/server hierarchies. They may not be as beneficent as we think. 90% of the cost of the Net
is engineering It's the backhoe, stupid! The US is in the thrall
of monied interests Totalitarian governments
fear the open internet Markets are imperfect and always
will be. But they are also powerful
and inevitable. Rejecting them is as
foolish as worshipping them. Predictable cycles: horizontal and vertical integration The money: connects, interacts, transacts enterprises and customers Incumbents see the Net as a virus Inefficiency is a huge part of our economy Dinosaurs will not change Most of the Net's real (as in
unavoidable) costs are in the
physical plant; the rest is
rent-seeking. Can be cheap! Incumbents think the Net
doesn't work Special-interest groups
are king The money is in infrastructure, most of
it in the last mile Robust ISP is possible
but unlikely Players with multi-sided business models dominate single sided. Over time, the Net becomes more complex and people need more help (services) All the things we are complaining
about here are best classified
as bumps in the road Planet Earth is the most
important political entity It got us here...
future questionable Okay, we've proven that the Net
is a new paradigm When a new paradigm appears,
the owners of the old will do
anything to prevent the change,
and they always lose in the end Tech/market changes are more
important to overcome vested
interests than any purely political
action. Render vested interests
obsolete or irrelevant Creates progress and
efficiency, which lead to
specialization: smaller or
new forms of companies Is one key component of
a helpful framework that is
emerging Developing helpful frameworks
and patters are more important
than developing individual solutions
to choices we are experiencing If the value comes from the
physical plant, independent
ISPs don't add much value The Cloud is a techno-
economic paradigm shift Broadband everywhere is
disruptive in a positive way Is a world of ends
(think end to end) Internetworking will prosper
and continue to grow Implementation precedes
understanding Education is tremendously
important to transform the world The world is more complex
and emergent than policymakers
believe The Web is a process,
not a thing The Net and Web are
social systems of agreement
and need to be understood
as such primarily People need "privacy"
to collaborate Modularity preserves opportunity The Internet can be affordable
for most people in the world Sustainability requires
perpetual experimentation Scientific progress
works to answer
questions. It has so
far more than most large-scale systems Facts matter History matters; ie,
importance of path
dependence Making people understand
at the intellectual level may
be insufficient Connectivity is a public good Open generally is
better than closed We humans are naturally
social, looking for opportunities
to connect Crisis is often necessary
to trigger change by humans People tend to overestimate
their self-awareness Collective behavior
is emergent We need a comomon
plan of action and personal
commitments to make it
happen, including commiting
resources Getting change through
requires getting end users
emotionally engaged Free global communications
is the most important thing
we can do to create a better life Access is essential Connectivity is empowering Ideas shape the world.
Bighook = nurturing new
ideas by exchange Technology is human Communication is good
more comm is better Humans like to cooperate The Net is much more
than just another medium The Net offers a possibility
for radical transformation Hope is realistic The Internet is a force for good Communications improves
human life We in this room
are all on the same
side Netness makes life better Individual freedom and
self-expression are
paramount What is good for us as individuals
or end users is different from what is
good for institutions that serve end users It is more effective to agree
on a few fundamental points and
act on them than to infinitely
discuss a large number of big issues