Re: <nettime> Rice Seminar - Chronotopic Imaginaries: The City in Signs,

["t byfield" <tbyfield@panix.com>]

On 12 Sep 2015, at 15:39, John Young forwarded:

> As Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, once put it, there is 
> "one centralized Achilles' heel" to the Web's otherwise decentralized 
> system: computers may be free to talk to each other, but only if they 
> abide by given naming conventions. This means that the system can, in 
> theory, be brought to a halt by whomever is in control of a limited 
> number of root name servers, which until recently added up, ominously 
> enough, to the mere number of 13.

This is an academic center with $50K+ to burn on a postdoc -- and no 
sooner do they sense the specter of politics in their 'network' than 
they make it go away again with this kind of cheesy numerology?

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