Sunday, April 06, 2003

THE INTERNET: CHAPTER TWO.  D.C. Denison writes about Groove in his Business Intelligence column, which appeared in today's Sunday Boston Globe. He correctly credits "Chapter One" of the internet's history to DARPA. He talks of "Chapter Two" and the military/technology trend taking hold right now in the form of social software that uses the internet as it was intended.  Decentralized groups of people swarming with a common purpose, using the net as a platform for connectivity, leveraging the net's inherent pervasiveness and high availability. What's more, he mentions Groove as part of that new chapter. He references the highly decentralized conflict we as a country are fighting and the need for enabling technologies that allow us to plan and respond in a highly matrixed fashion. It's the new economy/new world requirement of rapid, JIT instantiation of secure spaces with constituencies from multiple organizations.  Have a read, here. 9:23:42 PM