{"id":4682,"date":"2010-09-08T16:45:21","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T10:47:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-08T16:47:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T10:47:18","slug":"all_nodes_in_a_network_are_int","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/all_nodes_in_a_network_are_int\/","title":{"rendered":"All nodes in a network are intermediaries."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someday <span class=\"nr-highlight\">everyone in the world will have<\/span> <span class=\"nr-highlight\">email<\/span>, and when they do, I <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">don&#8217;t want six billion emails a day as everyone shares<\/span> what&#8217;s on their mind. Since half the world will probably have their own <span class=\"nr-highlight\">businesses<\/span>, and half of those will be <span class=\"nr-highlight\">start-ups<\/span>, I will do everything I can to insert intermediaries between my mailbox and their mailsenders, to sort out, route, and filter my incoming mail. By the same token when I go to email old Mohammed Jhang, someone whom I have not met, who lives in Chinese Turkestan, to let him know about my latest gene therapy cure for arthritis, <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">I&#8217;ll need an intermediary to find him and then to reach past his blocking filters<\/span>. I probably won&#8217;t get through so I&#8217;ll need more intermediaries (An advertiser? A lottery? A locating agent?) to lure him into the open, perhaps a pigeon-racing club, or the cineplex where he gets his movies from, to make him aware of my discovery. Sure, anyone can type &#8220;new gene therapy cure for arthritis&#8221; and turn up 32,000 hits. But you need intermediaries to vouch for their medical worthiness. You need intermediaries to compare my price and the others.<\/p>\n<p>The marketspace of the new economy can hold far more intermediaries than the marketplace of the old could. <span class=\"nr-emphasis\">This swelling bulk of intermediaries becomes an exaggerated middle.<\/span> As networks proliferate, so do overlapping clusters of intersecting interests that reside in the realm of the middle. In fact the hypermiddle is <span class=\"nr-emphasis\">less a size than a shape<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someday everyone in the world will have email, and when they do, I don&#8217;t want six billion emails a day as everyone shares what&#8217;s on their mind. Since half the world will probably have their own businesses, and half of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/all_nodes_in_a_network_are_int\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[203],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}