AOTF Dumb Poll #9
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This was actually a close call for me. I miss the days pre-internet, but that really just takes me to my early 20's when I fully adopted the internet. I def spent more time outside, talking to woman in public places and enjoyed living more. The internet was def a game changer though, information at our fingertips, porn, Peegs (ha), online dating.
I'll take the good ole days by a 60/40 margin.
I'll take the good ole days by a 60/40 margin.
Tough one this time around, I voted without, but I really think we are both better off and worse off for it.
VanPastorMan
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We were in Logansport IN on Sunday and there is a ton of construction there. Logansport is a hard city to get around anyway, but with construction you can get lost. Luckily we had our phones which showed us the alternate routes.
This is correct.
The internet originally was full of promise . . . it was exotic. Now the novelty has worn off and it has become a tool that demands/distracts waaayy too much of us. The good news of that is with the expansion of the population into ranges that are unsustainable, fewer of us will be commanding use of the limited natural resources available . . . instead we'll be inside thinking that we have a life because of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
VanPastorMan
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I told my wife that most of the people who live and work in Logansport were people who came into the city for a visit but couldn't get out of there so they just settled.
Social media is the 2nd Generation of the Internet's evolution. We will be heading into the next Gen soon.
The internet has increased hate and made stupid people think they aren’t
(With apologies to stupid people)
(With apologies to stupid people)
Web 3.0
https://blockgeeks.com/guides/web-3-0/
https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Web-30
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juttasteiner/2018/10/26/what-the-heck-is-web-3-0-anyway/#2aadb2b86614
More specifically:
I have some basic philosophies and truisms when it comes to the Internet:
1) Humans can't handle too many choices. From user designs -- you don't offer an end user more than 8 choices per situation. In fact, my choices would be far fewer than that. Its tough because of the amount of work that needs to be done in the backend. I have custom-designed remote controls with only 12 buttons for my Internet TV platforms. Engineers are both lazy in wanting to chuck everything out there and also I think they feel the more complex it is the smart they look.
2) With too many choices, it forces the end-user to stick to what they know which isn't good considering they thousands of possibilities and options out there.
I have had a build philosophy of personalisation for the end user since I started doing tech a few decades ago. (Started with a startup that was sold to Time-Warner many moons ago.)
So AI, algorithms are critical. The problem is that people who build AIs and algorithms don't really understand the end-users that well. Just what they think they (the end-users) like.
This is the case with many sectors from healthcare to disruptive technologies.
Regardless Web 3.0 to me is smart personalisation. But it will also consider of basic business modelling changes of removing the middleman ie peer to peers but in a secure way.
I was supposed to have started some testbeds for various sectors for this Web3.0 area back in Jan/Feb 2020. Some radical stuff (somewhat Libertarian wet dream fintech stuff to disrupting some incumbent agricultural business models.) But this feckin' virus thing came around and screwed up that startup and our funding.
Am now back to ground zero again.
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