Thought experiment for Independence Day... How easy would it be to develop a “Public Google” that was distributed across tens of thousands of computers similar to the way that the SETI@home project uses the cycles of computers all over the world?
I’m not sure how to keep the NSA out but this approach might be a good way to slow down the mining of personal data and provide a public alternative to the monopoly on search and access that Google has recently attained. Of course after that the possibility of a Public Facebook etc. etc. also becomes more realistic? This project seems do-able and the window may be shrinking? Thanks for indulging me! — Doug Douglas Schuler [email protected] https://twitter.com/doug_schuler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Public Sphere Project http://www.publicsphereproject.org/ Creating the World Citizen Parliament http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/may-june-2013/creating-the-world-citizen-parliament Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (project) http://www.publicsphereproject.org/patterns/lv Liberating Voices! A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution (book) http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11601
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