<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">hm. one day later, this interesting critique came out. here’s a little taste:<div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>… "But we should not despair. The way forward is to recover and nurture a
different dimension to the much-feared Balkanization. So yes, there's a
third way. Balkanization – a concept hijacked by technology firms on
both sides of the Atlantic to push for their own business agendas – can
also mean something very different and more upbeat: decentralization of
information infrastructure combined with the erection of a few
occasional barriers to what would otherwise be perfectly frictionless
movement of data. Silicon Valley hates friction – in the 1990s Bill
Gates sang gospels to “frictionless capitalism” and, more recently,
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg lauded “frictionless sharing” – but should we
not inquire as to how much frictionlessness a democratic system can
withhold?” </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>and here’s a link to the post:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://blogs.sueddeutsche.de/feuilletonist/2014/01/20/the-world-is-noth-enough-how-to-reinvent-the-internet/">http://blogs.sueddeutsche.de/feuilletonist/2014/01/20/the-world-is-noth-enough-how-to-reinvent-the-internet/</a></div><div><br></div><div>m<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Mike O'Connor <<a href="mailto:mike@haven2.com">mike@haven2.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">hi all,<div><br></div><div>i’m finding this to be a nice combination of my two policy hobbies (ICANN and Minnesota broadband). </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="http://www.bcg.com/expertise_impact/PublicationDetails.aspx?id=tcm:12-152889&mid=tcm:12-152888">http://www.bcg.com/expertise_impact/PublicationDetails.aspx?id=tcm:12-152889&mid=tcm:12-152888</a></div><div><span id="MainContent__ctrl_0_lblControl"><div class="mar_top_15"><div class="img-shadow"><div class="img_cont"><br></div><div class="img_cont">To help “grease the wheels” of the digital economy, the BCG
e-Friction Index measures the four types of friction that prevent
consumers, companies, and countries from realizing the full benefits of
the digital economy. Smart policy can address e-friction and speed the
development of Internet use and individual countries’ Internet
economies.</div></div></div></span><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div>
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