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For a side-hobby of mine (writing), I imagine what would happen if current trends would continue. Thus, big caveat, it's all just thought experiments, not reali
by dsign 3y ago
For a side-hobby of mine (writing), I imagine what would happen if current trends would continue. Thus, big caveat, it's all just thought experiments, not realistic predictions of any kind.
For this particular scenario, the public Internet would get so bad ("enshitified") that people would tend to leave it alone. For essential public services, governments would set up their own networks disconnected from the Internet, where all devices and their connections must be authenticated to a person or corporation[^1]. Maybe something equivalent would exist for corporations and to enable e-commerce.
[^1] China works like this already, to a high degree.
- grotorea 3y agoYou heard of New IP? The Huawei/Chinese plan to reform the Internet that keeps getting criticized for a variety of reasons. I haven't had the times to read the proposals proper, but the stuff about build trust directly into the network seems like it could solve this problem, at a price. > Having security and trust be “intrinsic” to the network will require core layers to carry metadata about the users, applications and services being transported. If users need to register in order to have packets sent to their destination, the result is that network operators, and those who license the operators, can remove individual users’ access at any time. https://dnsrf.org/.k-media/d3c1d810de1e98bdf7af7aa52406e837.pdf https://dnsrf.org/.k-media/d3c1d810de1e98bdf7af7aa52406e837.... (critical of the proposal)