"The problem is that it (the internet) was devised by a bunch of hippie anarchists who didn't have a strong profit motive."
“The Internet is an important cultural phenomenon, but that doesn’t excuse its failure to comply with basic economic laws,”
What I sense here is a group of business men who made some very bad business decisions. Rather than blame themselves it seems easier to blame the structure of the internet as being inefficient and “anarchist.” I think it is obvious to anyone that has the slightest clue about the internet that it isn’t the internet that has failed. I would classify it as one of the most successful “inventions” ever. It’s more popular than religion, but not quite as popular as sex (although it fills the void for some).
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The internet is nothing if not efficient. if you can buy a domain, register the DNS for it and have it available to anyone in the fucking world in under 24 hours, that’s effecient. If corporate america had designed the DNS system, it would take you 6-8 weeks to receive your domain. Just an example. Yes, the internet is anarchist, and i’ve always said that that’s its advantage and why it will survive, no matter how many dotcoms go out of business.
BAD business is all about business telling customers what they can have. Good business is about figuring out what customers want and giving it to them. It doesn’t surprise me that the failures are whining about how the Internet is all wrong for business.
Big business will always be pointing a finger. It’s the nature of the beast. “Who fucked up? Fire em!, Fire the whole department at that! Damn it!”
The internet is nothing if not efficient. if you can buy a domain, register the DNS for it and have it available to anyone in the fucking world in under 24 hours, that’s effecient. If corporate america had designed the DNS system, it would take you 6-8 weeks to receive your domain. Just an example. Yes, the internet is anarchist, and i’ve always said that that’s its advantage and why it will survive, no matter how many dotcoms go out of business.
BAD business is all about business telling customers what they can have. Good business is about figuring out what customers want and giving it to them. It doesn’t surprise me that the failures are whining about how the Internet is all wrong for business.
Big business will always be pointing a finger. It’s the nature of the beast. “Who fucked up? Fire em!, Fire the whole department at that! Damn it!”