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I thought the internet would connect people who could do things together, not only to share a car or some chore, but to share company, help each other, build a
by jokoon 8y ago
I thought the internet would connect people who could do things together, not only to share a car or some chore, but to share company, help each other, build a network. That was the sharing economy.
If you look at tinder, this concept of finding compatible people by economic goal, interest and location is really the ideal things we want from the internet.
But instead we're back to the basics of market mechanics, profitability, jobs, consumption, comfort, and the ability to make money. It's not surprising. But I still have faith in an internet of proximity where people post ads, talk with nearby people for stuff they need or trade, instead of letting big money own how internet gets to be used.
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- tinbad 8y agoIMO what you describe can be summarized as a UX problem. Those things are there but it takes time and effort to find them, usually hard to figure out and therefor not adoptable by the masses. It's much easier to sign up for FB and start consuming through their slick UX. This is why big money wins time and time again. This is why Bitcoin, Linux, IRC, p2p, etc never had as much of a mass breakthrough as some had hoped, and likely never will.
- jsutton 8y agoOn the contrary, if it is a UX problem, then the Bitcoins of the world should eventually have a breakthrough if the tech is valuable, so long as the right UX can be found. It happened to IRC already (Slack). We just need more focus and investment on UX.
- no_identd 8y agoFix the Developer UX of TCP/IP by surplanting it with GNUnet (Which still needs some serious improvements) & RINA (that also goes for RINA), and the rest will fall into place.
- buboard 8y agoi think the "sharing" term was being pushed by marketing departments for when those companies were still small and most the clients were geeks. It's more about commoditizing life and turning everything to a service (and discovering its price), including human relationships eventually.
- lotsofpulp 8y agoThe internet does connect people. What it can’t do is build trust. For numerous reasons, people don’t just trust other random people, so we use proxies to see if we want to take a chance on trusting someone, proxies such as location, age, gender, race, level of education, career, wealth, etc. I don’t want to get in a car driven by some random person, I want them to be vetted by at least Uber and other Uber passengers. I don’t want to let just anyone stay in my house, I want assurance from others’ experience that the person staying won’t trash it. People seem to value the credit rating systems.