Whats the connection between Wi-Fi wireless networks, Weblogs and Web services?
They are among the few technologies thriving amid the industrywide downturn. What’s more, they are examples of the trend toward decentralization. In the coming decade, decentralization will be the critical challenge for the technology, media and telecommunications industries. Each has developed with the assumption that powerful central forces will manage development. Enterprise IT has “big iron” servers and monolithic software applications; communications has carriers investing in huge infrastructure build-outs; and media has content owners controlling distributions channels. These approaches are under siege–and not because there’s a New Economy, or because information deserves to be free, or because of any fluctuation in the stock market. Centralized systems are failing for two simple reasons: They can’t scale, and they don’t reflect the real world of people. The world is becoming increasingly complex. Companies manage supply chains in real time, while hundreds of thousands of gamers
