World of Ends

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Kevin Marks <kmarks () mac com>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 20:36:55 -0800
To: dave () farber net
Subject: World of Ends

This is the best explanation of End to end thinking I've seen:

http://worldofends.com

What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else.
by
Doc Searls and David Weinberger

There are mistakes and there are mistakes.

Some mistakes we learn from. For example: Thinking that selling toys
for pets on the Web is a great way to get rich. We're not going to do
that again.

Other mistakes we insist on making over and over. For example, thinking
that:

* ...the Web, like television, is a way to hold eyeballs still while
advertisers spray them with messages.
* ...the Net is something that telcos and cable companies should
filter, control and otherwise "improve."
* ... it's a bad thing for users to communicate between different kinds
of instant messaging systems on the Net.
* ...the Net suffers from a lack of regulation to protect industries
that feel threatened by it.

When it comes to the Net, a lot of us suffer from Repetitive Mistake
Syndrome. This is especially true for magazine and newspaper
publishing, broadcasting, cable television, the record industry, the
movie industry, and the telephone industry, to name just six.

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