Digrevo: Feed your Network!

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Feed your Network!

Kevin Kelly, New Rules for the New Economy, Wired, Issue 5.09, Sept 1997

In this Article Kevin Kelly is basically explaining what will be found on the web and putting it in a constitutional format.

"A network is like a country. In both, the surest route to raising one's own prosperity is raising the system's prosperity. The one clear effect of the industrial age is that the prosperity individuals achieve is more closely related to their nation's prosperity than to their own efforts.
The net is like a country, but with three important differences:
1) No geographical or temporal boundaries exist - relations flow 24 by 7 by 365.
2) Relations in the Network Economy are more tightly coupled, more intense, more persistent, and more intimate in many ways than those in a country.
3) Multiple overlapping networks exist, with multiple overlapping allegiances.
Yet, in every network, the rule is the same. For maximum prosperity, feed the web first."

Basically in this paragraph Kelly explains the bare minimums for a network and explains that a web only exist if you feed it information.