Re: [DC3] IOT Session in NY

Reading https://magic.co/network/ I see a lot of confusion – with a lot of the same memes I see recurring in these efforts. I do understand the very positive intentions but it is missing the high order bit of the Internet – the strict separation of best efforts transport of anonymous packets from what we do with them. This confusion is endemic as people try to fit the new concepts into the old paradigms as in assuming the value is in the parts (or microparts) rather than only existing in the whole. It is counter-intuitive in the idea of liberating people by doing less for them in the facilities we use (AKA, “the network” as a thing). It has all the old telecom concepts like quality of service (whatever that means), the idea you can negotiate and buy preference form a network operator. It also has the idea of paying for data as if ones and zeros have intrinsic value. It also assumes a network as if it were like a railroad rather than like sidewalks. This ‘cast on the history of money (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZkP2b-4vo) resonates in the way we went from thinking of gold as a currency with intrinsic value to the idea of money as something abstract. In the same way we need to move from thinking of data as physical objects to a more abstract way of thinking. Bob Frankston http://Frankston.com [1]