19/ A lot is low-value/high volume so online micropayments arguments ("just make it free"/"not worth financializing") apply. But not all.
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10/ I'm going to shrug off pennies worth of electric power or wifi used for free as community goodwill. Stolen package, not so much.
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21/ F. Pohl said "job of the sci-fi writer is to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam." Traffic jam is ALWAYS at leaves of tree
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22/ Literal traffic jams happen near cities. As s/w eats a network-provisioned service, traffic jam moves further down into capillaries.
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23/ *something something information in black hole is at surface, holographic principle*
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24/ I once pitched feature on last-mile to a mag; editor rejected it as too esoteric :D But if you get tech, it's where ALL action is
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25/ With VR, NFC, payments... It's not even the last block or last yard by your doorstep, it's the last inch from your face wherever you are
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26/ General topological theory why this happens. A more informationally powerful tech induces a higher resolution network structure
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27/ Resolution "delta" (tens of miles for trains/planes, miles for cars, blocks for foot/electricity, inches for wireless) extends network
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28/ Network core can be defined as the "low res" backbonet where economics allow aggregation leverage, and low transaction costs for $ flow
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29/ Every tech stops being organized by econ, starts being organized by social norms at its transaction resolution limit, set by tx costs
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30/ So sociologically, the last mile/block/inch is where the market stops and priceless values etc. start to kick in.
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31/ When large scale disruption happens due to a major tech like s/w, social-norms space gets systematically pushed back by market space.
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