theloneshark

I lived in a age when sunday was holiday for postoffice & letters took forever. The false sense of urgency created by emails & instant messaging are human creation (if we agree on that) by organizations that have self-interests to protect. I fully understand availability of service. Most of package/mail carriers told us how deliveries will be delayed due to cyclone in Florida or increasing load due to holiday+covid in recent days? Let us translate all of this to internet traffic as well. Hell didnt break loose or sky didnt fall on our head when it happened. Hoping we are in agreement till now, what worries me is not messaging or availability of that service. But the commercial interests that will use such services for their data mining. As soon as one agrees to new terms & conditions, what if WhatsApp roles out updates that suck in more info about me from my phone to build their dark profile & strong social connectivity maps? I think some of us are opposing that. It comes at cost of, lets say half day of service outage once in a while. How did we spend our childhood days when there were lengthy blackouts?

I glanced through very interesting discussions below(sorry, if this is repeated question) I was wondering if it is time to define basic rights of an individual in the internet. - Free & fair access to information(not controlled by any corporation) for everyone [wikipedia?] - Free communication (emails, messaging, calls) for everyone [signal?]

How do we structure this? Donations(private individuals, users, governments?), usage fees(annual subscriptions for a household?) or some other payment model we haven't discovered yet (like USPS stamps/postage fee - PAYG)

Thanks for your link. Very helpful.

Congratulations on all your success - hope it makes you feel good. You also happen to be in the right place at the right time. This to make me feel good.

Very good question for psychology & neuroscience. We are yet to find why some are born with a state of mind of "why" & "how" while others have to try to learn it(and yet, might not perfect it)

I have a senior who tells me to hire people who are naturally curious(in-spite of any skill shortages). Your explanation is bulls eye to that theory.