Aram Sinnreich: The Next Generation Internet

May 17, 2011 by Gail
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Aram Sinnreich envisions a new internet that uses mesh networking to produce a stable, ad hoc, global wireless network in which each user is a router, server and client combined, and in which no single state or organisation can effectively censor or surveil the population on a broad scale.

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ABOUT Aram Sinnreich

“Aram Sinnreich is a writer, speaker and analyst covering the media and entertainment industries, with a special focus on music. Named one of the fifteen “Innovators and Influencers of 2001″ by InformationWeek.

He is often quoted in media outlets such as The New York Times, Forbes, Billboard, The Wall Street Journal and NPR. He has also written about music and the media industry for publications including Wired News, Truthdig and American Quarterly.

As a Senior Analyst at Jupiter Research in New York for over five years (1997-2002), he produced research covering the online music and media industries and provided hands-on strategic consulting to companies ranging from Time Warner to Microsoft to Heineken.

Aram currently serves as Managing Partner of Radar Research, a media and technology consultancy, and is a Visiting Professor at New York University’s department of Media, Communication and Culture.

To date, Aram and his team have developed a set of ‘social specifications’ describing the functionalities required of MondoNet, and are in the process of mapping these specifications to open technological platforms. Their present aim is to develop a fully open, global development process akin to the collaborative environments surrounding Linux and Wikimedia.”

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