Small and Distributed - Open Alchemy

Everything is shrinking and becoming less centralised - power, devices and networks - where is this taking us and what can we do?

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Faster horses!

Where and how will people work when they can access everything from a simple device? As the Economist this week said, the car was seen as a faster horse, but brought highways, cities and suburbs, drive throughs, etc. what will "faster more powerful communications" change?

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True localisation

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Where's the money in this?

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Global terrorism

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Faster horses!

Where and how will people work when they can access everything from a simple dev (more...)

Decision making

Where does this leave large organizations and centralization of decision making? (view all debates)

True localisation

Increased ability to custom supply and hence charge on local basis for products (more...)

Where's the money in this?

How will companies "monetize" this - today some of the things we took for grante (more...)

Global terrorism

Computing power of small devices is being translated into weaponry, how will gov (more...)

Faster horses!

Where and how will people work when they can access everything from a simple dev (more...)

Decision making

Where does this leave large organizations and centralization of decision making? (view all debates)

Everything is shrinking and becoming less centralised - power, devices and networks - where is this taking us and what can we do?

Selected Response

Apr 16, 2009 - anonymous