Today the Apple Tablet media crunch by Steve Jobs has created an enormous demand for information. We have become a swarm of distributed agent systems programmed to follow Jobs. “Distributed agent systems r(u)n by themselves…You set them up and let them go.” (M Crichton, Prey, p.500). We techies recursively crowded internet sites, and caused channel overloads?
(see this blog: http://artsandminds.typepad.com/artsandminds/2003/12/five_stages_in_.html
Watching the attempt to live broadcast the iPod via http://www.ustream.tv/leolaporte, I am struck by how quickly (in a matter of seconds) the ‘live feeds’ broke down into intermittent transmission. Viewers of this website were estimated and 100,000 or more, and that is only one channel. I am watching the most rapid cycle of evolution/devolution I have ever seen.
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