To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (33176 ) 4/8/2010 4:18:04 PM From: axial Read Replies (1) | Respond to Frank, in my opinion you, Plato and Tainter are zeroing in on the core of the problem - and it extends way past telecomms. It goes past politics, and current global tension between corporate, national and public interests.itself becomes a problem. When any entity - even an organism - permanently enters that phase, it's in irreversible decline.internally consistent solutions. From Shirky:"Diller, Brill, and Murdoch seem be stating a simple fact—we will have to pay them—but this fact is not in fact a fact. Instead, it is a choice, one its proponents often decline to spell out in full, because, spelled out in full, it would read something like this:we have grown accustomed to making it. And we don’t know how to do that .”" Yes : exactly! Not only in this granular case, but in the greater sense, too. What we're seeing here, and globally is proliferation of problems for which there is no internally acceptable solution.
