The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web

Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee... by rsync on Monday June 20, 2016 @11:58AM (#11938855)

"Why? Because we know there will be nonrecoverable unintended consequences ... It's time we handled the internet the same way."

You can set down your phone anytime you want to. It just feels like you can't.

The degree to which "Internet" becomes a driving force in your life is the degree to which you diminish your life to allow that to happen. It doesn't have to be this way and it takes very little effort or imagination to keep it from being that way.

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Re:The Fathers of the Internet Urge Today’s Software Enginee... by brokenmachine on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @12:55AM (#11951643)

There is also the option to only use sites that respect your privacy. This rules out Facebook for me, and so far I don't miss it at all. I am happy to email or IM people I want to communicate with, or actually call and talk to them. I don't care about people adding likes to photos of my lunch.

I personally am hopeful that there will be a better solution over the horizon.

Zeronet is very interesting to me as a proof-of-concept, not perfect but very interesting and a glimpse into what I would like the future of the internet to be.

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