"Open-Architecture"

Week Three. Topic One.

The internet can be described as "open-architecture" for one main reason. The "open-architecture" concept ws thought up by Licklider in 1962, and is primarily to do with the flow of information. The theory of "open-archietecture" is that data flows freely from everywhere in the world-there and back. Previous "old media" simply send messages one way: from the insitution through the tv or radio (and so on) to the audience. The internet provides more of a circulation of data-we provide data, send messages and so on, and the internet provides us with what we need back.