The modern internet doesn’t suck; corporate websites & mobile apps suck. People don’t kvetch about the quality of Hexbear/Lemmy much. Devs are never returning to office; Cybersyn wouldn’t be a physical location this time. AI mostly sucks and isn’t even needed. Humble, non-enshittified open source software gets the goods.
The modern internet was created by the military the ownership of domains was done poorly. A lot of countries couldn’t get ipv4 addresses because the us government hoarded them all so we had to create ipv6 addresses, and the funny thing is we dont use like half of the ipv4 addresses, at most these vital bits of digital infrastructure so many countries would kill to have are being used for fucking email servers in the pentagon if anything at all.
Fourteen years ago there was an alternate path we could have taken: IPvX: Better than IPv6?
IPv6 is coming, but it is difficult and expensive to implement because it is not backwards-compatible with IPv4. This page explains the problem and a proposed solution: IPvX. This is a fantastic proposal from Bill Chimiak that may save us all from a large expense of time and money, and spare us from a whole new set of security problems.
The techbros would try to put a market in the cybersyn
As things get worse and more chaotic, we might see the rise of this type of system out of necessity. Supply chain issues, genuine shortages, mass migration, etc. are all problems that will need solutions that something like Cybersyn can solve, and that the current roster of institutions can't or won't. The infrastructure is all there, as is most of the software required. It's not really a technical problem, it's a political one. The people in charge don't want interconnectivity at a societal level because that would inevitably lead to communism.
It's like you people haven't even read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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