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

[Michel Bauwens]

I'm leaving Sam's question to Sepp ...

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> In my region, the service providers often block this type of serving.
> For a long time, for the same cost as broadband internet, I could
> access VPS technology, and do most work in web applications.
>
> Now, we are working with the F/LOSS version of Erlang which gives
> access to TCP/IP port data transfer (among other ways of distributing
> computing). Ubuntu now uses couchdb  (written in Erlang) for remote
> storage with it's "ubuntu one" service
>
> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/12/code-tutorial-make-your-application-sync-with-ubuntu-one.ars
>  Also, we are working on experiments with eucalyptus and pooling of
> resources towards making clouds.
>
> I agree that these "personal server" innovations are important. I also
> think that other factors shall emerge at the same time, such multiple
> interfaces (not just the commons devices you see now, like laptops,
> desktops, mobile devices. I think we will see more sensors and other
> devices used as interface to distributed server systems).
>
> I also here rumours of a few people working on a completely graphical
> interface (no-text) for programming, which means that you could build
> programs by connecting shapes.
>
> Question (to Michel, Sepp, or anyone):
>
> What are some potentials that you see for individuals (most of whom
> cannot program very well) for personal servers? What if you had access
> (kind if like with Yahoo pipes, but even more powerful) to interfaces
> that let you put together functionality for processing information,
> computing, etc, similar to the way you might build a structure with
> lego blocks?
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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,
> >
>
>
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