Saturday, March 08, 2003

Jeffersonian Internet? Doc Searls' latest post pulls this from the past... From the mailbag... A 1995 letter from Al Gore calling for a versatile, general purpose infastructure with a "Jeffersonian" architecture that allows individuals to be producers as well as consumers of information, that enables "many to many" communication, and that provides a "general purpose" infrastructure capable of supporting a wide range of services, rather than one that is capable of providing one-way video delivery but not a broader range of services Right arm, Al. Funny, had a conversation with a middle school teacher in a local bar on Jeffersonian Democracy (no, kidding, at 1:00 am -- on a Friday night).  We concluded, until voters educate themselves, that concept won't become reality.  But, the tools (e.g. blogging) are definitely here to support the concept.   12:00:48 PM