The current trends on Browsers and OS´s is one of the things that drive me to try to create first what the next iteration over a platform like browsers, based on organic p2p tecnologies should look like, and then iterate a little more and create a optional OS on top of it.
I hope that in a couple of months i can launch this platform here on HN so i can see what you all think, as i have a great respect for the community formed here.
But we need to not rely on companies that tend to make a profit from the cloud computing, analitics, big data and of what people make and publish for free, if we really want to have our privacy and our freedoms in general, respected in the end.
Anyone that can sum 2 + 2 can see how this can lead to severe consequences into our private lives, and civil liberties in the end if we keep following this path. As we might be only depending of the good will of the status-quo that can change depending on the political context of du-jour. (And i must remind you all that this good will and the more generous environment might reach to an end, as the circustances may lead to economical and political crysis, environmental crysis, shortage
of primary resources, political instabilities, war, or just a simple power-hungry drive to control all things)
The problem is that only the political/social point of view is not enough, as we need to respond with a technology good enough, or even better, in a way the end users, and the devs will be naturally inclined to use the platform to reach their own personal goals.
And it´s my believe that organic, p2p forms of content distribution and communication in general, can deliver a superior environment compared to what we have today with browsers. And even if the big players could create themselves this kind of platform, they would not want to, because in the end they are trying to reach absolute control of our data, and our digital representation of life.
The trick is to have the right building blocks carefully combined to make it work in a way that it will make people want to develop for it from the perspective of the devs, and to use it as a medium from the perspective of the users.
I hope that in a couple of months i can launch this platform here on HN so i can see what you all think, as i have a great respect for the community formed here.
But we need to not rely on companies that tend to make a profit from the cloud computing, analitics, big data and of what people make and publish for free, if we really want to have our privacy and our freedoms in general, respected in the end.
Anyone that can sum 2 + 2 can see how this can lead to severe consequences into our private lives, and civil liberties in the end if we keep following this path. As we might be only depending of the good will of the status-quo that can change depending on the political context of du-jour. (And i must remind you all that this good will and the more generous environment might reach to an end, as the circustances may lead to economical and political crysis, environmental crysis, shortage of primary resources, political instabilities, war, or just a simple power-hungry drive to control all things)
The problem is that only the political/social point of view is not enough, as we need to respond with a technology good enough, or even better, in a way the end users, and the devs will be naturally inclined to use the platform to reach their own personal goals.
And it´s my believe that organic, p2p forms of content distribution and communication in general, can deliver a superior environment compared to what we have today with browsers. And even if the big players could create themselves this kind of platform, they would not want to, because in the end they are trying to reach absolute control of our data, and our digital representation of life.
The trick is to have the right building blocks carefully combined to make it work in a way that it will make people want to develop for it from the perspective of the devs, and to use it as a medium from the perspective of the users.