NotUsingLinux
I mean an environment that is self contained and can be modified?
I wished the authors would think of aspects like that: how to modify the system without restarting it or needing separate tools.
Sure it looks nice but in the end its a browser with some javascript libs glued together with sqllite or something?
Customization seems way to difficult , so the tool can do a bit of tiny things that seem nice for me but so many things that I don't need. The GUI seems very bloated for me.
Is this just me? Or are people generally happy with such GUIs?
One could say their "Link map" enables such a thing but its not quite the same thing.
Personally I do really like the Zettelkasten Method which leans more towards a representation of thought in a written form. Ever wondered how the Zettelkasten "guy" Nikolas Luhman could be so productive(> 50 books) it was because of his Zettelkasten(Method).
http://www.dansheffler.com/blog/2015-05-05-the-zettelkasten-...
So every time I find a new tool, at least for me I evaluate it through that lens: how much does it really help me to represent my thought process. And hiearchical notes are not enough for that, at least for me...
A question now may be: can this "Blockchain" Idea give rise to technology which in turn helps people to coordinate better?
Its really interesting there projects who mandate for more transparency through blockchain and then there are projects who ride on "everything" should be private.
The answer to such problems very seldom lies in extremes but in the mediation between possible options.
Many Ethereum projects but also IPFS now finally offer tangebile (beta) products. In many traditional metrics they are lagg behind mainstream projects. But since decentralization over centralization and collaboration over competition are real values interesting things begin to emerge.
Now I could be counting to 3 until the next person jumps here on and (projects his values or antagonist dreams on this) says capitalism is it and socialism was the worst thing in history!!!111
But maybe a room can grow which is neither capitalism nor socialism but yet better. So lets start to ponder , some impossible thoughts - using this blockchain thing.
Building better technology - finding better ways to coordinate with people - in the real world. Through digital technology but not only limited to or by it.
Other wise you are just looking for an instruction manual for life, which doesn’t exist as such.
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/team-human/id114033181...
Most part of what we call civilisation, such as industry, sich as the IT industry is simply not sustainable. To survive the 21 century we have to look at better methods to collaborate.
And of course technology is part of the eqaation. Open Source and similar efforts lead the way towards such better methods. But they cannot exist in vacuum or on a island alone.
So we have to change society but by bit. Let’s go!
https://gist.github.com/AndreasS2501/2dc6c5813f5fd8abc79aad4...
Philosophy is pretty cool?
I do really hope we see something like it in the next 5-10 years.
https://blog.bigchaindb.com/starships-and-tokens-d8c32728a24...
I am also very much in favor of distributed, self reliant communities. Yet I want to preserve the advantages of a global linked economy.
I hope that Blockchain technology will help us to achieve this.
I tried to capture some of the thought vectors here: https://gist.github.com/AndreasS2501/2dc6c5813f5fd8abc79aad4...
In my opinion the age of nation states is slowly coming to an end( see Catalonia and related)
So it will be exiting to see what decentralization brings to us. I hope web3 will help with this and along remove some of the negatives of big cooperations influence on society.
You raise some interesting points in your article. I wonder how to comment or discuss this the most efficient way (here or elsewhere?)
Some questions: Have you looked at haiku?
What you describe as modules, I think Alan Kay calls "objects" in the smalltalk/Xerox tradition.
Have you looked at his research project: STEPS reinventing programming?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyIQKBzIuBY
Some bits and parts of this is open source.
Imagine a full system running on 10000 LoC I think this could be a step forward.
Also this blurs if not throws away the distinction between "desktop and web(remote)" applications. Because if integration of remote objects is sandboxed but still transparent you get improved usability.
Also I think you go not far enough. Databases for file system are fine but I think the ida of widgets or UI libraries altogether is not feasible anymore.
The system has to adopt to a individual level, people have different needs and workflows.
Highly adoptable and conversational interfaces are needed.
WDYT?
Even if code only allows for "better" cooperation in some narrow dimensions, if these are important to the participants, this system will win.
DAOs are about scaling human collaboration.
It's not completely AI, but a way to understand ourselves in great masses better than we are able to to by ourselves.
Think about that.
Matrix.org is a start.
On a much much broader scale the Web 3.0 will be build on Blockchains, the so called Fat protocols will surpass the Web 2.0 or eventually merge.
https://www.usv.com/blog/fat-protocols
Ethereum will build up a considerable part of the ecosystem, with Dapps like status.im
Have you read the "sapiens" book? There is a good narrative in that book in that: religion, money and legal institutions are just fictions.
So I guess the question with tokens is : can we make up new fictions?
I think we can.
If you insist on "there is a reason why Regulator exist" , well I think it's not that reason you think it is.
The point is yes there is scam , see posts above. But yes there is also opportunity to find people who share similar ideas and values and express their common goals using tokens.
Does that make sense?