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Brilliant technical solutions are solutions to problems that people have, not problems we want to solve. As soon as there will be a serious problem, which can b
by dustfinger 9y ago
Brilliant technical solutions are solutions to problems that people have, not problems we want to solve. As soon as there will be a serious problem, which can be solved by decentralized or federated social service — it will be solved graciously, designs are in place already.
Decentralized technology is in fact trying to solve a serious problem, but sadly it is a problem that most people choose to ignore in favor of the incentives offered by Facebook and other monolithic centralized services.
However, Facebook et al. provide and maintain huge, single-point-of-entry, solely owned, walled gardens with hostile privacy policies and yet they successfully serve millions of users...
err... try billions of users
- megaman22 9y agoFacebook is in danger of becoming the new AOL. There's no new thing in technology, just variations on themes.
- ninegunpi 9y ago>Decentralized technology is in fact trying to solve a serious problem, but sadly it is a problem that most people choose to ignore in favor of the incentives offered by Facebook and other monolithic centralized services. So people trying to solve these problems better focus on root causes rather than exciting technical problems which do not change the rules of the game anyway, unfortunately.
- Spivak 9y agoIf you first have to convince large amounts of people that there is actually a problem then you're probably not solving a real-world problem for them.
- dustfinger 9y agoIn that case we better have a clear definition of what a real-world problem is. Is a real-world problem specifically any issue that impedes ones ability to fully capitalize on incentives? If that is the case then issues that do not impede incentive gain such as mass surveillance and corporate data collecting are not real-world problems.