• for: quote, quote - David Bray, quote polycrisis, indyweb - support, People-centered Internet Coalition, polycrisis
• quote
  • I believe we are arriving at multiple simultaneous breaking points.
  • The most obvious is of course the climate crisis, but also consider the mounting levels of
    • inequality,
    • of pollution and of
    • despicable charlatanry exhibited by those in positions of power.
  • These simply cannot go on if we are to survive as a civilization.
  • Since civilization is resilient, the odds are that we develop tools to support a saner society and bring those tools to bear.
  • I’m not prescient enough to enumerate them, but it seems that the single most useful technology would be one that
    • clearly distinguishes
      • verifiable truth from
      • agitprop
    • in an unavoidable and unambiguous way.
  • This is a necessary but not sufficient condition for making progress on any of the key issues we face.
• author: David Bray
  • executive director, People-Centered Internet Coalition

• for: quote, quote - Sam Adams, quote - social media
• quote, indyweb - support, people-centered
  • I do expect new social platforms to emerge that focus on privacy and ‘fake-free’ information, or at least they will claim to be so.
  • Proving that to a jaded public will be a challenge.
  • Resisting the temptation to exploit all that data will be extremely hard.
  • And how to pay for it all?
  • If it is subscriber-paid, then only the wealthy will be able to afford it.
• author: Sam Adams
  • 24 year IBM veteran -senior research scientist in AI at RTI International working on national scale knowledge graphs for global good
• comment
  • his comment about exploiting all that data is based on an assumption
    • a centralized, server data model
• this doesn't hold true with a people-centered, person-owned data network such as Inyweb

• People first computing
• people centered computing
• Interpersonal Computing
• https://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html
• https://web.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Engelbart/Engelbart_AugmentIntellect.html

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