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We humans have a tendency where: we invent something, exploit it only to realise at later point the mess that has happened and then correct our path. I see lot
by rohan1024 7y ago
We humans have a tendency where: we invent something, exploit it only to realise at later point the mess that has happened and then correct our path.
I see lot of negative comments on this thread but solid/polypoly is the beginning of that path correction for web. They might not succeed but something with the same underlying idea is going to.
- Intermernet 7y agoYep, the web is awesomely resilient in the long term to subversion. FB / Google etc. could completely privatize the entire internet and I guarantee people would work out something like PingTunnel[1] to get around it. Sure, might need to operate at 1980's modem speeds for a while, but there will still be a link. I have faith that the net will self-correct, but it might take longer than any of our lifetimes to do so. Such is the evolution of technology. [1:] https://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/golem/tmp/ptunnel-0.61.orig/web/ https://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/golem/tmp/ptunnel-0.61... [EDIT]: Add link
- pjmorris 7y agoDave Winer is fond of quoting John Gilmore, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." It feels to me like the current breach of privacy in exchange for 'free' services might now begin to be interpreted as damage.
- erikpukinskis 7y agoI think in the eyes of “The Net”, as anthropomorphized by Winer, privacy might look like a form of censorship.