01 JAN 2010 by ideonexus
How Design of Medium Inhibits Growth
Every transistor radio is, by the nature of its construction, at the same time a potential transmitter; it can interact with other receivers by circuit reversal. The development from a mere distribution medium to a communications medium is technically not a problem. It is consciously prevented fro understandable political reasons. The technical distinction between receivers and transmitters reflects the social division of labor into producers and consumers, which in the consciousness industry...Radios are not just for receiving, but for broadcasting, but we don't design them that way. Corporations control our interactions with the medium.