Subjective, Objective and Internet Technology

I've reprinted the section of the table that deals with Internet technology from the post Mental Functions Table.  Here you'll see how the basic structure of the Internet can be seen to metaphorically mirror Jung's model of human psychology, particularly in his first and most basic concept of Introversion (Subjective) and Extraversion (Objective).  Some of the technologies past and present can easily be mapped (I'd welcome suggestions of others).

Extraverted (E)	Introverted (I)
forward	backward
active	reflective
superficial	deep
expend energy	conserve energy
external	internal
talk to think	think to talk
public	private
speaking	writing
same	different

Server (e)	Client (i)
synchronous	asynchronous
client/server	peer-to-peer
server computing	grid computing
rss	http
ftp	bittorrent
IRC	IM
IM (Y!, AIM, XMPP)	Solipsis
push	pull

A robust social networking system would incorporate both side of the I/E dichotomy, and offer granularity in between.  There are purposes for both types of networking, as I'll explain over time.

It seems the original model of the Internet has been lost with the commercialization of it, and developing robust personal servers has fallen by the wayside.  It's time to return to the basics:  develop simple and secure server technology, develop sophisticated interfaces for the common user, distribute the software to each data server instead of relying on the cloud.

The cloud is a bug, not a feature.  Remember that.  It's important.