New Media & Technology

All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites by Cory Doctorow

During this weekend i’ve listened the Cory Doctorow’s presentation All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites in audio format done in O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference March 2005. Cory is one of my favorite Science Fiction writer and future geek, here is some citation from his speech:

You could stop spam by simplifying email: centralize functions like identity verification, limit the number of authorized mail agents and refuse service to nauthorized agents, even set up tollbooths where small sums of money are collected for every email, ensuring that sending ten million messages was too expensive to contemplate without a damned high expectation of return on investment. If you did all these things, you’d solve spam. By breaking email. - Cory Doctorow

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