Bitcoin and crypto are increasingly successful at putting financial services back in the hands of the people.
The same can be done with comms - throughout history comms were loosely distributed networks with the 'infrastructure' owned and operated by diverse groups. Even in modern times the pendulum has swung rapidly back and forth between centralisation and decentralisation accross multiple technology and communication domains.
We need the Open Source community to shift focus on ad hoc wireless peer-to-peer internet and telecommunications.
There are multiple challenges, but I have a number of ideas how they can be overcome. With enough combined brainpower, we can do it.
At least it shines a spotlight on the issue - once people start thinking about it, they will recognise the problem. Academic propaganda can't defeat human nature. We just need to point people in the right direction - just like Trump did with the wall and other 2016 issues. Set the agenda.
Boston University was already asking in 2019 if it's time to break up Big Tech. I'm sure something is coming... http://www.bu.edu/articles/2019/break-up-big-tech/
A decentralised internet would be the holy grail. Imagine a peer-to-peer mesh mobile network. Mobile phones are two-way radios with good range. Nothing stopping them talking directly to each other and proxying traffic over longer distances.
One of the challenges is the amount of signaling required to keep the whole network up to date with everyone's current location. My idea is that every residence and office has a phone that never moves and acts as a private home location server (HLS)/forwarding service for the entire household or business. Your ID is then a combination of the GPS coordinates and IMSI of that phone, plus your own unique ID on that residence's private HLS.
This is one of the reasons I dream of truly decentralised internet. Peer-to-peer mobile networks. I have some vague ideas for solving some of the challenges around location tracking, privacy, security and resource sharing.
They involve private home location servers (just a cellphone you always leave at home as a forwarding device, with a well-known ID/gps coordinate), blockchain rewards for proxying traffic, end-to-end private key encryption.
I guess hands are hardest for artists and AI:
Stink attitude man. A lot has happened the last five years both in politics and in my own life. I have not been aware of every single thing that happened along the way.
I have been a fan of Trump since the days Scott Adams started promoting his Master Persuader thesis.
However the reason I asked about poisoning is because I work in an office full of 'snakes' who hate people like us, and I'm literally afraid of being poisoned myself.