A new economic market place

When somebody offers me something free, I usually begin to tremble.
Because everytime I had something free I paid dearly for it...
Including a free lunch...

When you talk about free VoIP calling, we assume that it is just another internet application.
We assume that everybody already owns a computer and leases a DSL line.
Also when they talk about free speech we assume that everybody owns a body, a mouth and money enough to pay for his food.
How could he talk otherwise?

But what I was pointing out yesterday was something different.
When we find new technologies the most important issue is how to use them at their best.
An invention without a good application is worth nothing.

With VoIP the mistake is in that.
That most of the people do not understand the full potential of it, and in principle are underusing it.
Yes, it is a cheap way of making a telephone call, but that is just a small part of it.
The PCs, the Internet, VoIP, the full potential of a world on IP can really transform the way we live, we work, we entertain ourselves.

They have the potential to change the society and the players in it.
Cheap hardware, cheap communications, cheap broadcasting, global reach, mean that not only a few monopolistic, giant companies can rule the economic world, but that millions of small entrepreneurs can compete with them creating new services, new applications, a full new economic market.

Monopolies have to die,because the new economic reality doesn't need and want them anymore.
They have to die because they proved to damage and block the progress, for the only purpose to defend their interests.
They are damaging the world because they put rules not in the sake of the customers, but in the sake of their revenues.

We have to share the revenues among ALL and not among a few.
If we will fail to do it, if 2% of the population will go on keeping 90% of the richness, the world will be a bomb that will explode very soon.
The greediness of the few cannot bring us to disaster.
I wouldn't like to be one of the Cassandras of this century, but if nobody does anything, I am afraid I will be...