Subj : Re: is the main stream in
To   : Nick Andre
From : Grant Weasner
Date : Wed Dec 30 2020 18:15:22

-=> Nick Andre wrote to Richard Menedetter <=-

 NA> On 13 Aug 17  12:02:16, Richard Menedetter said the following to
 NA> Orbitman:

 RM> Nobody forces the general public to look at Facebook.
 RM> They could as well download an EBook from Descartes, or some scientific
pap
 RM> and read that.
 RM> It is NOT the Internets fault that people do not do that very often.
 RM> They COULD do it, if they wanted to.

 NA> But sadly Richard... people by and large don't want to.

 NA> Since the Internet became popular, we have yet to see some really truly
 NA> great science or scientists evolve; using the tools and information
 NA> available on the Internet to advance the next "great thing".

 NA> Some exceptions of course. Take that project which uses the idle
 NA> processing power of a volunteer's desktop computer to participate in a
 NA> mass distributed-computing effort to decode images from space. Bitcoin
 NA> currency is possibly another. Both of those have some real potential.

That project was amazing and it was used to understand the human genome. I
really like distributed systems, like bittorrent, bitcoin (not an owner),
casandra, I2P, and I'm thinking about getting into Bittorrent File System BTFS
(not butter file system). 

I'm interested in non-centralized systems, and systems giving freedom to
users/people. 

Bbsing

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