The internet as we have it today is a complete mess... most of the capacity is devoted to waste (spam) and websites no one will ever visit. It is so leaky as to invite spying, not that it is necessary since everyone is happy to self-report. The preacher man all complain that the #1 problem by far in the pews is porn addiction, due to the www.
Such freedom was unexpected, but there we have it. It need not be so. There can be alternative internets. http was one invention, there could be another. The same pipes and wires could be used to handle a different programming language, on another "www."
This www could be open-sourced, and escape patents. Yes. The internet is an invention itself, and there is not solution that cannot be improved upon. But USA controls what can be an internet, for security reasons, so a second not-www internat, in which inventions unimagined were brought forth, will lead to violent intervention. That is capitalism. The few who are allowed to win tell those who are not allowd to win, there is somethign culturally wrong with them.
I recall back in the 1980s people did initiate competing internets, but they were quickly shut down, like counterfeiters. So no go? Well no. There is a way to create an internet in which it is impossible to spy on users.
It has been around for a while, it is called MBC, meteor burst communication. Here is a once secret technical report from the NSA (a good example of what is secret: a study of a technique used by Ham Radio Operators... wait, what?) It is really cool science, using meteors hitting our atmosphere, an unlimited supply, as satellites. And even cooler, it is not the meteor but the trail behind it that is used to bounce signals. Cheaper than satellites, and more reliable than cell phones.
Since there are so many meteors, and their life so short, it takes some serious computer work (but not too much for your new iPhone) to predict, target and send a message that cannot be traced either inbound or outbound. How come? Because no need to register phones which are then triangulated by cell towers and billing records. All communication is free of charge and utterly private.
It is functional, there is at least one company capitalizing on it. But here is the problem: the relatively free internet, which costs us way more than we can afford in subsidies, crowds out the development and use of what would be truly no cost.
Visiting websites would be a technologically different activity in which a website would receive a request for information with an address to which to send the info... o wait, that is what we have now. Just with MBC no one could know who is asking and where it went. Privacy, and no cost communication. Such are free markets.
If there was no way to track users, there would be no use for the NSA and other spy agencies, and they exist for their own sake, and are irreplaceable jobs... or something like that.
Also, IPR allows layabouts to mulct funds from all of the patents on internet related activity. IPR would be moot in such a regime.
But we are yoked with security theatre which perniciously burdens commerce. We need a place that is free to develop such technologies, and not stop science. A Free Detroit? Aren't we halfway there anyway, with the name of the newspaper in that city the Detroit Free Press? Let's go all the way...
Such freedom was unexpected, but there we have it. It need not be so. There can be alternative internets. http was one invention, there could be another. The same pipes and wires could be used to handle a different programming language, on another "www."
This www could be open-sourced, and escape patents. Yes. The internet is an invention itself, and there is not solution that cannot be improved upon. But USA controls what can be an internet, for security reasons, so a second not-www internat, in which inventions unimagined were brought forth, will lead to violent intervention. That is capitalism. The few who are allowed to win tell those who are not allowd to win, there is somethign culturally wrong with them.
I recall back in the 1980s people did initiate competing internets, but they were quickly shut down, like counterfeiters. So no go? Well no. There is a way to create an internet in which it is impossible to spy on users.
It has been around for a while, it is called MBC, meteor burst communication. Here is a once secret technical report from the NSA (a good example of what is secret: a study of a technique used by Ham Radio Operators... wait, what?) It is really cool science, using meteors hitting our atmosphere, an unlimited supply, as satellites. And even cooler, it is not the meteor but the trail behind it that is used to bounce signals. Cheaper than satellites, and more reliable than cell phones.
Since there are so many meteors, and their life so short, it takes some serious computer work (but not too much for your new iPhone) to predict, target and send a message that cannot be traced either inbound or outbound. How come? Because no need to register phones which are then triangulated by cell towers and billing records. All communication is free of charge and utterly private.
It is functional, there is at least one company capitalizing on it. But here is the problem: the relatively free internet, which costs us way more than we can afford in subsidies, crowds out the development and use of what would be truly no cost.
Visiting websites would be a technologically different activity in which a website would receive a request for information with an address to which to send the info... o wait, that is what we have now. Just with MBC no one could know who is asking and where it went. Privacy, and no cost communication. Such are free markets.
If there was no way to track users, there would be no use for the NSA and other spy agencies, and they exist for their own sake, and are irreplaceable jobs... or something like that.
Also, IPR allows layabouts to mulct funds from all of the patents on internet related activity. IPR would be moot in such a regime.
But we are yoked with security theatre which perniciously burdens commerce. We need a place that is free to develop such technologies, and not stop science. A Free Detroit? Aren't we halfway there anyway, with the name of the newspaper in that city the Detroit Free Press? Let's go all the way...
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