This tickles my spidey sense. Real tech is what we can't use or teach, that Neo lived for in the Matrix, stuff like: Tor Browser, BitTorrent, pre-Microsoft Skyp

This tickles my spidey sense. Real tech is what we can't use or teach, that Neo lived for in the Matrix, stuff like: Tor Browser, BitTorrent, pre-Microsoft Skype, WebRTC, Bitcoin, etc etc etc. It's anything that lets the mind seek the truth uninhibited to get closer to the divine. The tech purgatory we live in today between utopia and dystopia is mostly walled gardens and surveillance capitalism. We pay a fortune for 5G and streaming services that technically have no reason to exist. It would be borderline trivial to develop real p2p networking for smartphones that self-organizes with others near them to share some fraction of their bandwidth and create a darknet. Like BitTorrent, performance would increase with the number of peers, so it would run faster at a festival for example, not slower. Which means that a gigabit radio would fully saturate and we'd be enjoying internet speeds perhaps 10-1000 times faster than we have now, even millions of times faster when the protocol runs on wired networks. Maybe something like Thread would facilitate the creation of a p2p network running on and alongside existing infrastructure. I believe that this free p2p network should have been developed around 2007 when the iPhone and Facebook exploded, but greed took us into this alternate timeline where expenses rise faster than wages so we never have the time, money or resources to escape the rat race long enough to get the real work done that gets us closer to a Star Trek UBI economy and self-actualization. Meanwhile there are countless Mark Zuckerbergs, 1000 billionaires and millions of tech influencers who have won the internet lottery but don't pursue the goals that I'm talking about here. They just seem to build out ever more infrastructure to expand their wealth, creating a black hole that shrinks the wealth of the working class. I can only think of a handful of benefactors like MacKenzie Scott who might do it in reverse and seek out eager minds to offer them what they need to work at the pace they're capable of outside the status quo. Which brings me to my point: the legalese obfuscating the Thread protocol isn't to protect their working group, but to prevent the disruption of the status quo in order to protect the fortunes of the biggest tech companies. The thing is, we're crossing thresholds now where I don't think a lot of people under 50 expect the future to get better. They're waiting to have children because they don't have enough money. Children are dying in proxy wars and we can't even call out the political party responsible because the other one is scarier. We're facing enormous geopolitical threats like the rise of authoritarianism and we can't even call it out because we depend on products made by child labor in those same countries, created using minerals and fossil fuels which only exist there. I mean this is like, really serious stuff. If we want to actually invent the real innovation that heals the world and improves the quality of life for everyone, it starts with the most fundamental disruptive tech like this.