Comments on: Using New Roads to Change the World http://www.northideas.com/internet_solutions/using-new-roads-to-change-the-world/ David North's ideas on solving problems with technology Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:49:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David North http://www.northideas.com/internet_solutions/using-new-roads-to-change-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-10 David North Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:58:54 +0000 http://www.northideas.com/?p=425#comment-10 Thanks for the interesting perspecitve. It is interesting to me the different ways we can think about the Internet. Thanks for the interesting perspecitve. It is interesting to me the different ways we can think about the Internet.

]]> By: David Locke http://www.northideas.com/internet_solutions/using-new-roads-to-change-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-9 David Locke Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:25:24 +0000 http://www.northideas.com/?p=425#comment-9 When we encode something and later decode it, we create an encoded space. Encoding and decoding constitute a codec. Transportation and communications were codec problems. Building a road encodes place. Building a container port to handle encoded content eliminated the costs of traditional ports. Those costs included money, time, and a social structure to support the economics of traditional ports. One of the chef-centric shows on the cooking channel once traveled from one town to the next on the Mediterranean Sea. Each town was geographically isolated. They had no roads. Travel was by sea. The woman fixed foods grown, shot, or caught within the confines of their valley and local seas. From one adjacent town to the next, the food was different. The culture was different. Meaning was different. Yes, we all sat down to eat. So the internet is likewise a codec. Looking beyond the internet, what spaces can we open, and what technology can we use to open them? What will the next new economy be based on? Culture maybe? When we encode something and later decode it, we create an encoded space. Encoding and decoding constitute a codec.

Transportation and communications were codec problems. Building a road encodes place.

Building a container port to handle encoded content eliminated the costs of traditional ports. Those costs included money, time, and a social structure to support the economics of traditional ports.

One of the chef-centric shows on the cooking channel once traveled from one town to the next on the Mediterranean Sea. Each town was geographically isolated. They had no roads. Travel was by sea. The woman fixed foods grown, shot, or caught within the confines of their valley and local seas. From one adjacent town to the next, the food was different. The culture was different. Meaning was different. Yes, we all sat down to eat.

So the internet is likewise a codec. Looking beyond the internet, what spaces can we open, and what technology can we use to open them? What will the next new economy be based on? Culture maybe?

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