Comments on: My Vision for the Future of Amateur Radio, “Pirate” TV & Microbroadcasting http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2009/01/20/my-vision-for-the-future-of-amateur-radio-pirate-tv-microbroadcasting/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:05:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: T-Omegathy http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2009/01/20/my-vision-for-the-future-of-amateur-radio-pirate-tv-microbroadcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-137248 T-Omegathy Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:33:20 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/?p=8722#comment-137248 Hams need to start looking at the bigger picture of where they fit into free & open communication in a country where that right remains at risk: <strong>Obama to Defend Telco Spy Immunity </strong> http://cryptogon.com/?p=6334 Another example of big corporations getting privileges and functionality ordinary human users are not allowed and have no way to compete with... Hams need to start looking at the bigger picture of where they fit into free & open communication in a country where that right remains at risk:

Obama to Defend Telco Spy Immunity
http://cryptogon.com/?p=6334

Another example of big corporations getting privileges and functionality ordinary human users are not allowed and have no way to compete with…

]]> By: T-Omegathy http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2009/01/20/my-vision-for-the-future-of-amateur-radio-pirate-tv-microbroadcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-137206 T-Omegathy Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:47:23 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/?p=8722#comment-137206 <blockquote>For a while now, I’ve been playing with the idea that it’s amateurs who are the monks of our present Dark Age, preserving knowledge which would otherwise be lost to the barbarian hordes of the market and the state…</blockquote> Wow! That's a fantastic image, Dougald - and that's precisely why I'm still going to study for and pass the ham test, even though I don't necessarily agree with or properly understand all the rules. I recognize that somewhere within this complex of folk wisdom is something with exploring and preserving - nevermind the technology itself!

For a while now, I’ve been playing with the idea that it’s amateurs who are the monks of our present Dark Age, preserving knowledge which would otherwise be lost to the barbarian hordes of the market and the state…

Wow! That’s a fantastic image, Dougald - and that’s precisely why I’m still going to study for and pass the ham test, even though I don’t necessarily agree with or properly understand all the rules. I recognize that somewhere within this complex of folk wisdom is something with exploring and preserving - nevermind the technology itself!

]]> By: Dougald http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2009/01/20/my-vision-for-the-future-of-amateur-radio-pirate-tv-microbroadcasting/comment-page-1/#comment-137166 Dougald Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:03:43 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/?p=8722#comment-137166 Just to riff off the idea of amateurism (in the manner of a man who has been awake and working for 20+hrs), a minute ago I was copying this passage from an old Ran Prieur essay: "I don't think we'll have any technology in 2100 that can't be done in 2050 in a garage -- or in a network of garages and scrap collections. If there's anything we want to save, we need to begin adapting it now so it can be done on that level, bottom to top. Garage industry doesn't have to profit or die. It doesn't require wage laborers who will quit when money no longer buys food. Technology will be carried through industrial collapse by dedicated amateurs..." At a talk I gave the other day, someone reminded me that "amateur" literally means lover. (A "professional", meanwhile, has made a public declaration of his or her skill.) My friend and School of Everything co-founder Paul co-wrote an interesting pamphlet a few years ago called The Pro-Am Revolution: http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/proameconomy For a while now, I've been playing with the idea that it's amateurs who are the monks of our present Dark Age, preserving knowledge which would otherwise be lost to the barbarian hordes of the market and the state... :-) Just to riff off the idea of amateurism (in the manner of a man who has been awake and working for 20+hrs), a minute ago I was copying this passage from an old Ran Prieur essay:

“I don’t think we’ll have any technology in 2100 that can’t be done in 2050 in a garage — or in a network of garages and scrap collections. If there’s anything we want to save, we need to begin adapting it now so it can be done on that level, bottom to top. Garage industry doesn’t have to profit or die. It doesn’t require wage laborers who will quit when money no longer buys food. Technology will be carried through industrial collapse by dedicated amateurs…”

At a talk I gave the other day, someone reminded me that “amateur” literally means lover. (A “professional”, meanwhile, has made a public declaration of his or her skill.)

My friend and School of Everything co-founder Paul co-wrote an interesting pamphlet a few years ago called The Pro-Am Revolution:

http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/proameconomy

For a while now, I’ve been playing with the idea that it’s amateurs who are the monks of our present Dark Age, preserving knowledge which would otherwise be lost to the barbarian hordes of the market and the state… :-)

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