Ownership

Howard Rheingold, author of Smartmobs is raising issues of access and rights in a world where mobile media are pervasive. He is suggesting a manifesto, at the heart of which is a call that people or users can shape the usage and content of new technology. I think this goes to the centre of a battleground which will become a defining conflict of this century: ownership and trust in the digital arena. most major corporations were caught on the hop by the internet, and they don't intend to tlet it happen again.

The privatisation of conversation and many other domestic activities which were previously free is well observed trend in recent social and commercial history. So I particularly like this point from Howard...

Everybody should have the freedom to associate information with places and things , and to access the information others have associated with places and things. When manufacturers find out that consumers are using barcodes and RFID information to access globally-available information about their products and practices, are they going to stand still for that? Will the people at fifth and main have the right and power to read and write information about their neighborhood, or will the owner of a local franchise purchased from the city by a private interest (think about the way cable television operates) dominate? People like myself used to think that "the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it," but we're seeing authoritarian governments build their censors into their routers. Is there any better reason to believe that people will continue to have the freedom to read and write to specific parts of the geoweb? Will geoweb information gathered at public expense (such as weather or geographic data) become controlled exclusively by private owners?

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