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The year is 2050. You are reading this comment from a compatibility layer in your open-source browser that translates HTML from the 2010s into Thought-Interface
by talyian 9y ago
The year is 2050. You are reading this comment from a compatibility layer in your open-source browser that translates HTML from the 2010s into Thought-Interface Language 3.2, which was an open standard ratified in 2045 by a global consortium of content and browser developers.
Back in the 2010s, web access was peculiarly gated in a dendritic configuration as ISPs provided all the single-points-of-failure interconnections between end users (including both content providers as well as consumers) and the true "internet", a multiway resiliently-routed interconnect of servers. As we know now, extending the peer-to-peer core of the internet down to the consumer has had lasting impact, including breaking up the routing monopolies of the ISPs as well as making it possible for anyone willing to spend a few grand a year on server capacity to host a new peer-to-peer router for nearby Internet users.
Many of you may not remember the origins of Google as a "search engine", a monolithic index of "every reachable page on the internet." Such a quaint idea has long since joined even further historic concepts such as Yahoo's "human-curated list of pages on the Internet". Ever since the Searchtorrent protocol was introduced and consumer searches were conducted on one of several competing distributed hash tables across the internet, no one entity has had to shoulder the responsibility of storing all the web content on the internet. This author gladly pays a small monthly fee to a local search cache provider for reliably fast localized caching of search results.
The web is here to stay. Remember your history next time you visit the local Homo Sapiens preserve and give thanks to the carbon-based beings that invented the Internet.
- QAPereo 9y agoI think it's more likely that we'll be talking about "Guzzaline" and eating each other.
- gm-conspiracy 9y agoBrawndo? It's got electrolytes.
- neonhomer 9y agoIt's what plants crave!
- devrandomguy 9y agoWhat is Brawndo, exactly?
- jacquesm 9y agoIt's a reference to Idiocracy.
- devrandomguy 9y agoI guess I should have used quotes.
- philbot1008 9y agoWhat... plants... crave?
- 4c2383f5c88e911 9y agoI can't laugh at that line anymore because I found out that https://www.drinksmartwater.com/ https://www.drinksmartwater.com/ existed
- otempomores 9y agoI ll have the dry aged homo sapiens.. Rare.. Cooked slowly in his own carbon dioxide. The future is delicious
- nsxwolf 9y agoAnother example of the "Singularity" ruining even "near-future" sci fi.
- talyian 9y agoMy apologies for the machina ex machina. I needed a clean end to the post and got lazy.
- jstoiko 9y ago> anyone willing to spend a few grand a year sounds like there has been a lot of inflation in only 33yrs. what caused this?
- talyian 9y agoThe value of a high-throughput network interconnect slot from your peers is tied to the current value of all the cryptocurrencies the DHT routes, not just the cost of running the server and the physical links.
- scotty79 9y agoCool twist in the last paragraph.
- jugg1es 9y agoI really hope this is the future and not the OP
- icebraining 9y agoSearchtorrent So, they renamed YaCy? http://yacy.net/en/Technology.html http://yacy.net/en/Technology.html
- 127 9y agoOnly thing worrying about such decentralization is all of the extra tons of CO2 that it produces. Of course to robots, such concerns wouldn't be nearly as acute.
- devrandomguy 9y agoHopefully, the power grid will also be decentralizing and mostly transitioning to renewables over that same time period.
- adrianN 9y agoIf we aren't carbon neutral way before 2050, it doesn't really matter anymore.
- Cshelton 9y agoDNS through a massive distributed ledger. The blockchain. I can't wait. Individuals' devices will be the backbone of the web/internet, not massive server farms owned by Google and the likes. A small group of smart phones distributed across the region will be able to handle massive amounts of traffic with additional amazing cache protocols.
- devrandomguy 9y agoYou can use it now, as IPNS, for the IPFS network. https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdPtC3T7Kcu9iJg6hYzLBWR5XCDcYMY7HV685E3kH3EcS/2015/09/15/hosting-a-website-on-ipfs/ https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdPtC3T7Kcu9iJg6hYzLBWR5XCDcYMY7HV685E... There are browser plugins for IPFS, if you don't want to use the ipfs.io gateway. That gateway is free to use, and fairly transparent to people who do not have IPFS set up.
- diggan 9y agoIt's worth nothing that IPNS is not a blockchain though, rather a DHT with public/private-keys cryptography. Also, IPFS network is a blockchain-free protocol.
- devrandomguy 9y agoThanks for the correction, I was wondering when I would have to burn a namecoin or something. > IPFS and the Blockchain are a perfect match! You can address large amounts of data with IPFS, and place the immutable, permanent IPFS links into a blockchain transaction. This timestamps and secures your content, without having to put the data on the chain itself. While I'm at it, I should also mention the caveat that IPNS won't put an entry into the classic DNS system, so you won't get a yourdomain.com out of it. It just gives you a random permanent base62 name to refer to some updateable content. You could ameliorate that for yourself by running your own DNS service, and I actually like the idea of that - I'll name things for myself as I see fit. I'll be i.pub, facebook.com can be troll.psych, and Google can be surveillance.borg. Can't wait for people to see that over my shoulder. Oh, and good luck to anyone at work who is blocking domains for me. Yes, names have power, I think I should be in control of them. I'm sure it will be worth the hassle of canonicalizing URLs before sharing or passing them to third party systems.
- RonanTheGrey 9y agoThe future better look like that. The alternative is... dystopian.