After totalitarianism, whats the next biggest battle brewing in cyberspace?
There are a lot of things connected to totalitarianism, such as the ability to affect the technical architecture of the Net and the increasing number of standards and protocols that are being passed down by the likes of Microsoft. I worry that the Net is closing. I would say that (Microsoft e-commerce initiatives) .Net and HailStorm are huge threats and really diabolical. The problem is that hardly anybody recognizes it because they don’t know what .Net is or how it works. They don’t know that Microsoft is trying to own all of your transactions, literally. To play devil’s advocate, isn’t Microsoft simply selling a product that millions of people are willing to purchase at their own will? Oh, come on. People aren’t willing. Microsoft is giving people what Microsoft wants because it has a monopoly, which isn’t based on the value of the product but rather a positive feedback loop in the information economy: Everything is compatible with Windows, ergo, Windows prevails and continues to pre
