[p2p-research] Fwd: on the importance of personal servers for the new multi-literate society

[Michel Bauwens]

Dear Sepp,

this quote by stephen downes seems important, and it's something I not fully
understand, I think our readers would benefit if you could explain the
benefitss of this strategy to them,

see http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2010/02/pew-report-interview.html

“I choose to see personal web‐server technology (Opera Unite, Firefox POW,
etc) as a breakthrough technology, so people can put their own data into the
cloud without paying Flickr or whomever. It is this sort of 'personal
technology' I believe will characterize (what we now call) web 3.0 (and not
3D, or semantic web, etc.). So my dilemma is that, while these technologies
are pretty evident today, it is not clear that the people I suspect Pew
counts as “the savviest innovators” are looking at them. So I pick “out of
the blue” even though (I think) I can see them coming from a mile away.” –
Stephen Downes, National Research Council, Canada


also interesting:

“The internet generation is being exposed to text and media in unprecedented
quantities, and more, is not just consuming this media, but producing it as
well. Practice tells. The improvement will be especially dramatic and
apparent because new readers will be compared primarily with the previous
generation, the television generation, which for the most part did not read
at all. Unfortunately, this improvement will be apparent only to the newly
literate generation; the older generation will continue to complain that
young people cannot read, despite evidence to the contrary. Moreover, it
will be apparent by 2020 that a multi‐literate society has developed, one
that can communicate with ease through a variety of media, including art and
photography, animation, video, games and simulations, as well as text and
code.” – Stephen Downes, National Research Council, Canada

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