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* Without this kind of structure, we are tribe-less. In that disoriented state, we naturally line up behind the information mechanisms which are most comforting to us. * Without this kind of structure, we are tribe-less. In that disoriented state, we naturally line up behind the information mechanisms which are most comforting to us.
* We have supplanted these structures with bad digital substitutes, simply because digital communications are now the default medium. * We have supplanted these structures with bad digital substitutes, simply because digital communications are now the default medium.
* We Must Destroy the Internet
* Architecturally, treat it as commodity transport, with pervasive hostile actors leeching metadata about connections and realtime streams
* Mesh networks
Protocol Failure Protocol Failure
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The reason is because the technical architecture directly lays out what is and isn’t possible for application design; and when we build apps in certain ways, we separate users from their data, and get to deeply inspect their every action. This is especially pernicious when the apps are used as the medium of communications between individuals in their *private* lives, where they have deeply personal and intimate interactions with their friends and loved ones. The reason is because the technical architecture directly lays out what is and isn’t possible for application design; and when we build apps in certain ways, we separate users from their data, and get to deeply inspect their every action. This is especially pernicious when the apps are used as the medium of communications between individuals in their *private* lives, where they have deeply personal and intimate interactions with their friends and loved ones.
With “social sharing” sites like Instagram, we’re training a new generation to literally be attention whores: giving up what should be their intimate lives, to power inferential engines owned by the largest companies, so that they get debased and artificial “social currency”. With “social sharing” sites like Instagram, we’re training a new generation to literally be attention whores: giving up what should be their intimate lives, to power inferential engines owned by the largest companies, so that they get debased for artificial “social currency”.
The cost of this to each individual, and to society at large, is not typically contemplated. But it is vast. We are raising an entire generation of children and teenagers on a sugar diet that displaces all else in their lives. We are force-feeding this same sugar down the throats of adults who are old enough to know that this doesn’t feel right, but don’t know how, as individuals, they can stop the spiral of social regression and private degeneration. The cost of this to each individual, and to society at large, is not typically contemplated. But it is vast. We are raising an entire generation of children and teenagers on a sugar diet that displaces all else in their lives. We are force-feeding this same sugar down the throats of adults who are old enough to know that this doesn’t feel right, but don’t know how, as individuals, they can stop the spiral of social regression and private degeneration.

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## Contents ## Contents
0. [Introduction](0%20Introduction.md) i. [Introduction](0%20Introduction.md)
1. [The Web In 2017 - Structural Failure At Every Level](1%20Web%202017.md) I. The Web We Lost
* A Beastiary of Obvious Failures
* The Attention Economy, Servant of Growth Capitalism
* From Connection to Consumption
* The Chinese Model
* An American Model
2. [The Web We Lost](2%20The%20Web%20We%20Lost.md) 1. [The Web In 2017 - Structural Failure At Every Level](1%20Web%202017.md)
* A Beastiary of Obvious Failures
* The Attention Economy, Servant of Growth Capitalism
* From Connection to Consumption
* The Chinese Model
* An American Model
3. [Centralized Social Media Is Broken By Design](3%20Centralized%20Social%20Media%20Is%20Broken%20By%20Design.md) 2. [The Web We Lost](2%20The%20Web%20We%20Lost.md)
4. [The Root Problems](4%20The%20Root%20Problems.md) 3. [Centralized Social Media Is Broken By Design](3%20Centralized%20Social%20Media%20Is%20Broken%20By%20Design.md)
5. A Humane Network 4. [The Root Problems](4%20The%20Root%20Problems.md)
* The Core Challenge - What is the right technological infrastructure that supplements, extends, and scales human networks, to achieve greater engagement, deeper trust, and emerges collective intelligence?
II. The Web We Need
1. The Fundamental Question - What is the right technological infrastructure that supplements, extends, and scales human networks, to achieve greater engagement, deeper trust, and emerges collective intelligence?
* Computer Networks vs. Social Networks * Computer Networks vs. Social Networks
* The role of decentralized communication technology in bringing about a new, sustainable human ecology * The role of decentralized communication technology in bringing about a new, sustainable human ecology
* Sensemaking is not optional (draft) * Sensemaking is not optional (draft)
* The Internet Is Too Much * The Internet Is Too Much
* Anomie (in Clipped Articles Civ 2.0) * Anomie (in Clipped Articles Civ 2.0)
6. What Comes Next 2. Moral Philosphy for Digital Humanity
* Self-hood and agency
* Identity, privacy, and the social field
* Four-dimensionality: Digital Humans are all ships of Theseus
3. What Could Come Next
* What are current stop-gap tech approaches, and why are they not enough? * What are current stop-gap tech approaches, and why are they not enough?
* 4 Layers of Fail * 4 Layers of Fail
* Challenges for any distributed data application system * Challenges for any distributed data application system
7. Beaker and Dat 4. What Should Come Next: A Decentralized Information System
* Motivating questions (a la Bitcoin's "money no one can stop me from spending")
* Orthogonalizing transport from representation from identity
* Computational Trust: bootstrapping from local trust to global reputation; web of trust; a global decentralized credit system
8. Appendix A. What About _____? 5. Beaker and Dat
6. Tech overview/survey, 2018: What About _____?
* ZeroNet / Zero platform * ZeroNet / Zero platform
* Matrix * SAFE network
* IPFS
* Fermat * Fermat
* Urbit * Urbit
* Ethereum (and ether-related, e.g. https://www.uport.me/) * Ethereum (and ether-related, e.g. https://www.uport.me/) and [Akasha](https://blog.akasha.world/2018/02/10/akasha-beta-emergence/)
* SAFE network
* Blockstack * Blockstack
* Mastodon
* I2P
* DAOStack / Backfeed * DAOStack / Backfeed
* Mastodon
* Matrix
* IPFS
* I2P
* Consensys * Consensys
* DFINITY * DFINITY
* cjdns * cjdns
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* Indie * Indie
* Cicada * Cicada
* RetroShare * RetroShare
* Sovrin.org * Self-sovereign identity
* Xanadu * Sovrin.org
* FutureOfText.org * Better hypertext/knowledge systems:
* [Akasha](https://blog.akasha.world/2018/02/10/akasha-beta-emergence/) (on Ethereum): * FutureOfText.org
* (Hardware stacks) * Xanadu
III. Civilization 2.0
* A Brief History of Modern Economics
* Labor and resource scarcity
* Fifty years of "As if" growth in a fiat currency bubble
* The system of the world: Transactional money, Wealth, Risk, and Temporal Novation
* Centralization of credit and "trust bondage"
* Collective Intelligence
IV. Commentaries
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