The organizing committee for the O’Reilly P2P+Web Services conference is being interviewed, en masse, on the Decentralization list on Yahoo Groups this week. Check out my first post:

Another example, in the service of explaining the consequences of Metcalfe-driven tech. Say you’re working on a little indie CGI movie, something funny and cool like the Princess-Bride-starring-all-rubber-sharks thing that made the rounds a couple weeks ago, except all computer-rendered. An adaptation of Lord of the Rings starring CGI pro-wrestlers and porn stars, maybe. You’ve been at it for a year, and there are, oh, 40,000 CPUs that fetch down your polygon and texture data whenever they’re idle and render it out for you.

Along comes the competition: another indie CGI movie. This one is an adaptation of Snow Crash, starring CGI Transformers, with funny voices that your basso-profundo friend who can induce bowel-seizures with his lowest James Earl Jones impression is doing. Users: 7.

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