Clearly this is not a valid system that we can tolerate.
I think that the internet is key to making the most dominant systems irrelevant which will make way for more compositional, less hierarchical, and more open, structures and systems. Theoretically those dominant systems have already demonstrated their irrelevance, we just need to make that a practical reality.
We need alternative internets in order to do that.
A more diverse information infrastructure may be key to providing not only personal privacy but also security.
I think that the internet is key to making the most dominant systems irrelevant
That has been the rhetoric, but the practical application seems to be centralizing to one or two dominant players in a given market. From an economic perspective the frictionless nature of the internet and the limited attention span of the humans that use it seems to result in one platform outperforming all others and leads in customer acquisition fading slowly if at all.
Having alternate internets might increase the friction enough to encourage diversity; but the end users desire to use the "best" solution for their problems will probably result in these alternate internets being knit together.
In sum. There are forces at work that your solution does not address.
The stubborn refusal of humans to act as though they were identical frictionless spherical humanoids of uniform density and heat transfer characteristics. And their stubborn insistence on acting like self-interested jerks who put their own comfort, well-being and survival well ahead of the interests of any of their con-specifics; much less any other animals sentient or otherwise.
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Clearly this is not a valid system that we can tolerate.
I think that the internet is key to making the most dominant systems irrelevant which will make way for more compositional, less hierarchical, and more open, structures and systems. Theoretically those dominant systems have already demonstrated their irrelevance, we just need to make that a practical reality.
We need alternative internets in order to do that.
A more diverse information infrastructure may be key to providing not only personal privacy but also security.
That has been the rhetoric, but the practical application seems to be centralizing to one or two dominant players in a given market. From an economic perspective the frictionless nature of the internet and the limited attention span of the humans that use it seems to result in one platform outperforming all others and leads in customer acquisition fading slowly if at all.
Having alternate internets might increase the friction enough to encourage diversity; but the end users desire to use the "best" solution for their problems will probably result in these alternate internets being knit together.
In sum. There are forces at work that your solution does not address.
What forces and how do you address them?
The stubborn refusal of humans to act as though they were identical frictionless spherical humanoids of uniform density and heat transfer characteristics. And their stubborn insistence on acting like self-interested jerks who put their own comfort, well-being and survival well ahead of the interests of any of their con-specifics; much less any other animals sentient or otherwise.