> you can run your thing anywhere and anybody can access it just the same. No walls Welcome to the future Marty! How was your ride in the time machine? I think

> you can run your thing anywhere and anybody can access it just the same. No walls Welcome to the future Marty! How was your ride in the time machine? I think you've got some catching up to do from the web/world of the early 2000's that you've just come from and are describing here. Let me fill you in on what has happened. Platform Monopolies are in full swing, and the internet is now a corporate owned web - with a myriad of apps that are surveilling our every touch and click (US but also abroad). Palantir has terrifying racist policing algorithms, the NSA is plugged into everything and has a dragnet filling a complex database for US 'homeland security', social media/Facebook campaigns can be used by 'Doublespeak'-ing authoritarian childhood-traumatized leaders to win elections [1], and Crypto AG is a CIA owned company that has been selling back-doored cryptography tools to national governments for many decades. [2] Oh and you might want to Google 'Edward Snowden' and go back and read some of the great the Guardian articles published about it. [3] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-mJnYmdVmQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-mJnYmdVmQ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22500231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22500231 or https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812537258/uncovering-the-cias-operation-to-steal-state-secrets https://www.npr.org/2020/03/05/812537258/uncovering-the-cias... [3] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-nsa-whistleblower-surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden... - edit: seriously though - Intellectual Property laws and the Silicon Valley strategy of purchasing IP by buying up competition is suffocating and stifling much needed access to essential technologies, depriving humans the ability to remix, reuse and have access to the underlying technical components in a modular fashion. Our current reality is killing our ability to meet these human needs for play, growth, autonomy and cooperation. The most promising change I see possible is a transition to Commons-based peer production, using the Holographic chain distributed app pattern by Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun, together with a move to mutual credit currencies, replacing mechanisms and dynamics that create or sustain the artificial scarcity of information or knowledge. This world would bring us universal access and shared control of a rich Commons, fully accessible by every child. Essentially what I am describing is an open source world. An open source economic system made up of unencloseable carriers and ever-evolving protocols, immersing us in a diverse and beautiful Commons - our shared inheritance.