[LINK] Financial Collapse from Web Reintermediation?

[Roger Clarke]

At 9:04 +1000 1/8/06, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>But I like your new word: reintermediation.  ...

It dates to the mid-to-late 1990s, sorry Jan!

The better one is Paul Saffo's 1998 coinage 'Disinteremediation'
http://www.saffo.com/essays/disinteremediation.php

Dis-inter-mediation was what some initially thought the Internet 
would do, i.e. enable direct producer to consumer comms without all 
those people in the middle.

Re-intermediation described the adjustment of middlemen to make sure 
they continued to be perceived to add value.

Moving the 're' to invoke 'remediation' implied fixing what's broken.

Altogether a nicer touch than the clumsiness of this parallel sequence:
-   out-sourcing
-   in-sourcing
-   right-sourcing

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