[HN Gopher] The Book of Swarm [pdf]
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The Book of Swarm [pdf]
Author : kristianpaul
Score : 7 points
Date : 2022-09-25 21:20 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.ethswarm.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.ethswarm.org)
| kristianpaul wrote:
| "On the surface, everything was rosy. Technological utopia hyper-
| connected the world in a way no-one could have imagined. No
| longer was the web just for academics and the super 1337, it made
| the sum of human knowledge available to anyone, and now that
| smartphones became ubiquitous, it could be accessed anywhere.
| Wikipedia, gave everyone superhuman knowledge, Google allowed us
| to find and access it in a moment and Facebook gave us the
| ability to communicate with everyone we had ever known, for free.
| However, underneath all this, there was one problem buried just
| below the glittering facade. Google knew what they were doing. So
| were Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. So did some punks, since
| 1984."
| joe_the_user wrote:
| _" Today, the spoils are distributed unequally: the larger the
| companies' data set, the more it can learn from the data, attract
| more users and hence even more data. Currently, this is most
| apparent with the dominating large tech companies such as FAANG,
| but it is predicted that this will also be increasingly
| importantin non-tech sectors, even nation states. "_
|
| The idea that a scheme like this, which involved effectively
| universal DRM, could change the current inequality, is just
| preposterous. Sure, this might threaten a Google or Facebook
| model but a Disney or Elsevier would love this and the existing
| success of data aggregators who own their data shows where it
| would go.
| decebalus1 wrote:
| For people who don't know the context for this (like I did not),
| I think this helps: https://medium.com/ethereum-swarm/this-is-
| book-of-swarm-e7ba...
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