I have a dream. A dream where everyone is connected by means of equal sized pipes, where everything is connected by means of equal sized pipes, such that at any given time, amount of information that can flow between any two entities is equal, only restricted by the enthusiasm to use the pipe. Nobody is preferred over anybody when it comes to information access. Everyone has equal access to the pertinent information.
Problem of the world stemmed from unequal access to various information. In earlier times, in hindu society, women couldn't have access to various religious texts. Geographical expanse makes equal information access a daunting task that everybody likes to not heed to, of course except when talking about 'digital divide'. But 'digital divide' is simply a very tiny part of the bigger issue. Digital divide acts over the concept of national boundaries and economic boundaries. Whereas issue of access to information is an issue of micro-size.
Inside a family, a husband buys a gift to his ex-girlfriend without his spouse knowing where the money from tax return went. That is lack of information access. There goes a fight between a nympho wife and a cheating husband that the neighbor is unaware of. A teenage daughter is sleeping with a gangster that parents' are unknown about. A new library is opened in one county that another county is unaware of. A country is researching about developing a new nuclear weapon that rest of the world do not know anything about. There are simply too many broken information pipes that hinder the proper flow of information. I have dream of fixing those pipes so that everyone will have equal access to the information.
There are questions of privacy. There are questions of familial and national security. There are questions of personal security itself at the forefront. But by having proper protocol in place in the pipes that guide the flow of information, a proper information network can be designed. Whatever information is needed can be garnered without the current restriction imposed by access to the pipes themselves.
One day, we will have a world where everyone will be connected by equal sized pipes with each other, every house, every town, every village, every country, and the entire world will be connected. Then we will not have to organize conferences on 'digital divide'. We will then live happily everafter.
posted by dipeshb @ 12:15 PM
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