What the Internet Isn't

02/10/04 00:00:00    

By Michael Mealling

or “How I stopped worrying and learned to love the end-to-end model”

Doc Searls and David Weinberger, co-authors of The Cluetrain Manifesto, have put together a 10-part guide that details the end-to-end model from an economic/networking/socio/political viewpoint as an attempt to educate those that want to turn the Internet into either television or an FM radio.

This concept is tired directly to Metcafle's Law and the idea of disintermediation and is the direct cause behind things like Amazon and Ebay.

The question for us is to find a way to apply these methods to getting our asses into space while we all get rich in the process. With CNC processes becoming cheaper is it possible to remotely 'print' rocket parts? I.e. moving the fabrication of aerospace hardware to the edges? What components of the resources we need for launch can we commoditize and make 'stupid'?