Like the internet, it feels like there need to be open standards for interop to even begin. Internet of packages needs the ability for inventory to find warehousing, packagers, shippers.
I definitely dream of re-de-centralizing, of re-wilding the e-economy. But wow it's going to take so much hard protocol design to make it happen. Amazon ever ratcheting up the fees creates opportunities for various other intermediatiom capture layers like Packsmith here to maybe get ahead but there's an unsatisfied "markets want a free hand" impulse that only the lessons of the internet can help satisfy, and that requires loose coupling & protocols. There's plenty of room for valuable service providers/coordinators there, but the protocols need to be open & free; e-merchamts need to be able to shift & move as they please. That needs protocols.
Percolating those protocols down to local logistics is even harder, is where intermediaries can be useful. But I think the bedrocks that disrupts, it's not enough to innovate internally; the big next shifts have to involve open systems & protocols, to a sizable degree.
how would you even start to reason about that? not even post could be standardized, it only barely works internationally with two extremes: nothing arrive, total abuse of the system.
I definitely dream of re-de-centralizing, of re-wilding the e-economy. But wow it's going to take so much hard protocol design to make it happen. Amazon ever ratcheting up the fees creates opportunities for various other intermediatiom capture layers like Packsmith here to maybe get ahead but there's an unsatisfied "markets want a free hand" impulse that only the lessons of the internet can help satisfy, and that requires loose coupling & protocols. There's plenty of room for valuable service providers/coordinators there, but the protocols need to be open & free; e-merchamts need to be able to shift & move as they please. That needs protocols.
Percolating those protocols down to local logistics is even harder, is where intermediaries can be useful. But I think the bedrocks that disrupts, it's not enough to innovate internally; the big next shifts have to involve open systems & protocols, to a sizable degree.