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If the Amish, or Benedictine monks, built an inter/intra-net, what would it look like?
The internet has a lot of problems. It is not just that there are some bad actors. Actually, the very shape of it incentivizes bad actors. It is malformed. We should not be surprised that it has devolved to the point it is today.
I don't think this technology is going away. It has too many benefits. But how can we radically re-form it? Let's look at a few aspects:
Heirarchy
The web as we know it now is very flat. You immediately connect to the same server as everyone else. (I know it isn't exactly this simple, and that distributed computing systems are actually at play, but the FUNCTION is as if they were a monolith.)
This mirrors the big-boxification that we have seen in stores.
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