If you want to reinvent the Internet, you might consider looking at the GNUnet project. I don't claim to be an expert on it or anything it talks about, but from what I understand about it, GNUnet is trying to reinvent the internet to be more decentralized, private, and efficient. Also look at http://secushare.org/ and http://youbroketheinternet.org/
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:05 PM, Christopher Havel <laserhaw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Mr Gibson, with all due respect (and forgive me for speaking out of a > half-stupor -- I did way, way too much today, and it's almost 11pm -- in my > defense, I solemnly swear I'm about to go to bed) -- > > There is a vast group of people (my mother is sadly amongst them) who are > of the belief that a perfectly sufficient quantity of "computer literacy" > is the ability to turn the machine on and off, use some sort of email > client, word processor, and web browser (without necessarily knowing the > names of these programs) and being within arm's reach of "someone smart" > who can entirely take over in times where genuine technical aptitude is > required. Moreover, *these people actually believe, in essentially > unshakable form, that they are freeing themselves (and everyone else) of > some sort of massive burden by embracing the level of technological > ignorance that they do.* > > You can't really reinvent the Internet (or much of computer anything -- > although, for better or worse, EOMA-68 plays well with their philosophy, at > least on a hardware level) without addressing that demographic of people in > some manner which is, quite frankly, likely to be distinctly unpleasant to > all involved... > > ...so (pardon my utter lack of eloquence here) how do you propose to deal > with such people, since they'll be the vast majority of your > customers/clients/constituency/etc..? > > I'd offer up my thoughts on the matter, but they're not liable to be all > that coherent right now -- so, instead, I'll keep my mouth shut so as to > avoid potentially getting my foot caught in there... "better to remain > silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all > doubt"! > > Alright, good night, everybody...! > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk >
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