Preliminary thoughts on internet

Why??

Why are poeple so narrow minded?? 

I have been carefully reviewing all sorts of forums and internet information guides and resources, and have come to a conclusion, people are generally blind. I think not many of the users of internet understand several things which for me are quite obvious, and hereby briefly outline. Anyhow, I still understand I'm in no possession of any absolute truths, but my impression of things relating to the net is made from the melting of information from all sorts of "fountains" and feeds, not just from the Internet related community.

I believe there are some unmoveable truths for me, which I will briefly list here, and in the near future will try to ellaborate:

1.- Internet is the future. Not because it gives us a new way to access information and all sorts of resources on any kind of topic, but beacuse it brings knowledge to basically anyone anywhere. This being so, the uneducated masses - and the self proclaimed educated ones - are free to choose ideas with which they concur from a sounder and wider base of information, thus bringing together the intellectual tools to make people free to choose. This, which is very basic and obvious, has several major implications, such as catalyzing discontent and accelerating political changes towards freedom in geographical areas which up to now have neither had access to non-censored information, nor an effcicient way for individuals to communicate their discontent to a massive audience, which, given strong criteria and freedom of thought, should pool together a large enough number of people to create an unsurfaced current and tide of thought that, at some point, will suddenly emerge bringing change to certain things and places. In this being so, the foundations for a better world are being laid as we speak, based upon the pillars of individual freedom of expression worldwide, unprecedented. The only similarly powerful enough coincidences I can find are the French revolution, the american revolution and the invention of the printing press.

2.- The new anthropology. Being an abssolute thruth that the last 200 years have revolutionised politics, social structures and in general the way in which individuals, countries and institutions communicate and relate to each other, I personally believe this has happened so due to the increasing capacity to send messages, thus ideas to one another. 

There's a certain virtue in the virality of information spreading from one being to another and a certain vice. Ideas are spread wider and faster that at any time in history, but the information going from mouth to ear time and again tends to devirtuate the basic mesaage and the essence of the thought. In this being so, first was the printing press, then was the telegraph, phone, radio, television, internet. We've travelled a long way from the runner of MArathon and the Persian couriers galloping the plains of the Euphrates and the Tigris.

Believing in the above, we now have overcome the shame of speaking in public and expressing our ideas in a coherced way in front of an audience that gives us feedback with their expressions, such as applause, booing and body language, trespassing the frontier to a new world in which we now express ourselves and interact with what we know can be a large and massive audience, generally with no specifically determined profile, through a camera to which we have spoken in the solitude of our room, through a blog of uncertain distribution, or via a profile in a certain network whose information is going to be accessible by lots of  people in places we have never even heard of. Therefore, communication is now both, more and less personal, being this an impossible and unprecedented duality, and also freer, for if someone accessing our thought or message is generally unknown to us or animically vinculated, we won't care what they think about what we say, thus being freer to express the very essence of our ideas.

3.- Geographical erroneous focus. I've been having lots of fun following amazing threads on domaining blogs and articles that talk about how to make money, increase internet traffic, SEO optimisation tips and else, and have come to a conclusion, people are geographically defocused. 

Its quite obvious to me that internet is only starting to impact the world due to one main reason, China and India are only now starting to come online. They are the two most populated areas of the world and thus have the largest potential to "eat" a large portion of the internet "cake" in the mid to long term, with their own proper sense of aesthetics in their own language. There's no easy way to fulfill this fact further than the sheer size of their population and the increasing portability of communication and constant reduction in the price of accessing devices such as micro computers and mobile phones. Being this so, why do most people in the US believe they're going to be ruling the internet in the future? can't they see that even though the major language now is English there are going to be parallel networks that will feed huge pools of people gathering under different "online-universes"? Amazing!! 

4.- The mechanisation of future value. Internet companies can't be valued following commonly accepted valuation methods. This is true due to one major issue, forecasts, in being the commonly used standard (I personally belive forecasts are useless further than being a mere trend spotting option) are subject to such a large number of uncertainties, directly derived from the abnormally large number of individuals than can get to interact, thus an abnormally large number of possible both massive and minor deviations, that the vices of valuations we see in traditional methods and companies are multiplied so many times, that any forecasting of the future behaviour of specific businesses, thus their valuations is perverted in its very essence. We must find a way to value internet companies and in general companies active in what now is the beginning of a new world. Someone, somewhere is going to come up, sooner or later, with a new way to company valuations in a world that still measures wealth and benefits from a very narrow and financially based approach which is basically useless in the XXI century.

Well, this is just a mere very brief and basic compilation of thoughts to start with, a bit blurry, but... will keep on writing, I'm having fun :)