I arrived late, I must admit, other people get Joost invitation before, I had been waiting patiently for free download, and now I get it…and I truly like it! So, today for the first time I got it into my computer. Videos, chat, widgets, feeds and everything you couldn’t even imagine 10 years ago. More disruptive than YouTube, maybe. For Hurley and Chen revolution based on user content generated was just the first, isn’t it? While Zennström and Friis – who invented KaZa peer-to-peer file sharing software and Skype, the first internet telephony network – finally slipped a real television network into computer, thanks to a revolutionary video compression enabling online streaming. Revolutions may take so many shapes. Bloody revolutions – but who deserves’em – civil revolutions, and also technological ones. After Gutenberg – in 1439 he invented movable type printing - probably few inventions revolutionised human life as much as the internet. Yap, maybe I’m too fond of new media, and linguistic lessons at university impressed me so much that I still believe in my head there are Chomsky "boxes" housing smaller boxes, each tagged SN, SV, SN and so on. Basically I’m sure the internet will change – already does – our lives. In so many ways we don’t know yet. Linguistically – we write, speak, interact and probably think differently (as Steve Jobs long time ago suggested!). By an anthropological-social point of view, modern structures seem entirely revolved arond the information-sharing-word-of-mouth-Laurence-Friedman-horizontal-society. Its roots are old, but we live on the branches of technological-world based, flowers or thorns blooming. Who knows it? We know there must be a flipside. As always. Because in an obscure-continuously-spinning part of my brain (the one on the left-backside), lies the idea that revolutions cost …sooner or later. Well I came later, so let me entertain that right-placed part of my brain!
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