[p2p-research] Google Wave

[Michel Bauwens]

Smari,

any chance you can expand a little on these points for our blog?

Michel

2009/7/8 Smári McCarthy <smari at anarchism.is>

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> The challenges of Google Wave:
>
>  1. We must ensure that it becomes Society's Technology and not
> Google's Technology; any monopoly on digital communications is
> inherently bad, but I needn't lecture people on the p2p research list
> about that!
>
>  2. We must ensure that older forms of communication be bidirectionally
> compatible to as large an extent as possible; our thousands of e-mail
> thoughts must not be lost.
>
>  3. We must ensure that this does not raise, but rather lowers, the
> barrier to entry for low end computing. Currently only a small fraction
> of humanity has connectivity and that is changing only with the adoption
> of cheap low end computers in developing nations. The processing
> overhead of XML is vastly higher than that of plain text e-mails, to a
> degree that it might exclude things like the Thinner Client (a $10
> microprocessor unit with a few kilobytes of memory that hooks up to a
> television). Bridging technologies must exist also.
>
>  4. At the end of the day, we must be able to say: "Ah, that was a good
> idea." ... and although I join in the Google Wave hype just as much as
> everybody else who's looked at it and seen in it the protocol of the
> future, I currently cannot say that, because I see huge problems that
> stem from the ownership of ideas, the loss of history, and the exclusion
> of billions.
>
>  - Smári
>
>
>
> Tomas Rawlings wrote:
> > I guess most people will have heard of Google Wave;
> >
> >
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/went-walkabout-brought-back-google-wave.html
> >
> >
> > The interesting idea of re-writing web-communication in a matter that
> > starts with a more peer-centred approach rather than end-to-end snail
> > mail model that email was based upon.  It merges ideas from wikis and
> > blogs and IRC into email.  What I though was interesting was that they
> > say they will open-source the technology.  This seems to me going back
> > to the ideas I first heard Michel expound, that of the commons holding
> > the value and the buisness building around this; is this a tacit
> > admission by Google of this?
> >
> >
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