Thanks to those contributors who mentioned this issue. I found the following
1-page summary useful in understanding the background of the concept:
http://members.aol.com/trajcom/private/commons.htm
An important concept though, is that the scarce resource is not [bandwidth],
but [our attention] i.e. technology can give extra Mbs, but not extra
minutes. This concept is discussed in depth by Harry Rheingold in his 1994
article:
http://www.well.com/user/hlr/tomorrow/tomorrowcommons.html
"Attention is the currency of cyberspace. If spammers learn
that the Net will turn off its attention in an organized manner,
maybe they'll go away before they damage the cybernetic commons.
If too many opportunists ignore the social agreements that make
the net useful as an online thinktank, the marvelous
knowledge-sharing culture that had scaled up so well from
the one thousand person ARPAnet in 1970 to the twenty million
person Internet of 1994 will be extinct by the time hundreds of
millions come online by 1999."
It seems to suggest that the only power we have, is to collectively ignore
the people who abuse our time, or those service providers who allow abusers
to flourish.
Regards, Mike Pearson
Personal: The views expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
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