{"id":1209,"date":"2008-09-15T08:28:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T15:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2008\/09\/an_audience_of_three_billion\/"},"modified":"2008-09-15T08:28:59","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T15:28:59","slug":"an_audience_of_three_billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/an_audience_of_three_billion.php","title":{"rendered":"An audience of three billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just about everyone will now stipulate that Internet connectivity has changed the way business works, the way culture works, and the way most social systems behave. But what might happen if we doubled or tripled the number of people on-line? According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Jump-Point-Network-Revolutionizing-Business\/dp\/007154562X\/\">author Tom Hayes <\/a>(summarized <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/edgelings\/2008\/09\/12\/googles-gutsy-global-gambit\/\">by Michael Malone<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;when the word&#8217;s entire labor force becomes interconnected via the Web,<br \/>\nall sorts of extraordinary networking effects will start emerging: the<br \/>\nworld&#8217;s first million employee company, the first trillion dollar<br \/>\ncorporation, an explosion in new inventions and patents arising from a<br \/>\ndoubling of the world&#8217;s available intellectual capital, new fads and<br \/>\ntrends emerging from the most unlikely places and racing around the<br \/>\nplanet overnight, new centers of power. . .and dangerous new threats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Google dramatically increased the probability of such massive global access to the Internet last week when it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.o3bnetworks.com\/press_o3blaunch.html\">signed on to support o3b Networks<\/a>, an initiative to bring high-speed wireless Internet to the &#8221;other 3 billion&#8221; citizens of the world in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Says Malone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The accomplish this, O3b plans to launch a network of 16 low-earth<br \/>\norbit communications satellites by the end of 2010. This network, the<br \/>\nconsortium claims will increase the world&#8217;s web-connected population to<br \/>\njust over 3 billion people. . .in other words, essentially what is<br \/>\ncurrently the world&#8217;s entire workforce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What might happen to the arts as we know them when another billion or two artists, audiences, and entrepreneurs become connected? How might it shift the predominant cultural expressions exchanged on-line (now overwhelmingly Western culture)? And what might it mean for arts organizations who currently serve (or might serve) a global audience?<\/p>\n<p>Round about 2011, I guess we&#8217;ll find out.<br \/><i><br \/>[ Thanks Drew for the link! ]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just about everyone will now stipulate that Internet connectivity has changed the way business works, the way culture works, and the way most social systems behave. But what might happen if we doubled or tripled the number of people on-line? According to author Tom Hayes (summarized by Michael Malone): &#8230;when the word&#8217;s entire labor force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}