Relaoding the path to digital freedom..part 1

[via u-blog.net]

It is funny how sometimes History is surprising : coincidence are more present than we think.
One of the disappointment of our time is the time coïncidence of two human revolutions : Cell Phone and the Internet.
Mobile Phone system seemed to be just an iterative process of the century-old usage, the phone : nevertheless they have just been extraordinary successfull BUT have created a legacy Marketing Structure of prominent MOBILE OPERATOR (CELLCO) imported from the phone age.
Internet never aimed to be a massive users system BUT has finally revealed as the most robust, scalable and innovation fueled network stucture than humans have ever created.
The paradox is that the two revolution are strictly OPPOSITE in structure :
One is anarchic and decentralized vs. the other is centrally controlled and consistenly planned.
One is "End Point Centered" giving autonomy to the machines controlled by end-users vs. the other is "Network Centered" servicing people needs by carefully designed locking contracts.
These oppositions explain why all the primary attempts to merge the two environments failed : they took the most limitative path to go.
Internet world has overprovisionned the Server Part and recreate a telco model ("à la Mainframe") with giants such as Google or IBM : one of the most reason of that is the scarcity model of endpoint identifiers aka global IP adress that breaks the E2E Principle.
The cellcos has deliberately limited the capacity and functional autonomy of mobile and keep on marketing around the PHONE CONCEPT that is too much inconsciently embedded in people's mind as a "dumb" phoning system. They have also distorted the Internet by leveraging Walled Garden models, artificially made to keep people dependant of the French Minitel Model.
However, mobile phones has spread extraordinarly : they have destroyed the Space time limit of people communications. AND they have embedded in people's mind the CRUCIAL BREAKTHROUGH of a "Silicon Stuff" that follow people EVERYWHERE EVERYTIME, a point that Walkman never succeeded to do.