| I like the scaling aspect of it very much. There are lots of "new" problems with respect to changing conditions in our day to day lives. Here are a few - Identity management across Internet and non-Internet properties - Configuration, control, auditing, and monitoring of billions of Beacon level devices - Zero knowledge proofs as a technique for anonymous and no repudiated purchases online - "home" level cloud services for local and on the road implementation of always available services (mail, journaling, calendaring, Etc.) - Reliable third party payment systems (somewhat of an old system but one that benefits from revisiting with current technology from time to time) - Navigation and cartography tools for people in disconnected regions of the planet. - Civil process augmentation with automation and authentication. - Connectivity as a tax payer civic utility, without an editorial bias. -Dynamic skills assessment for students in the presence of confounding factors (mostly remote access) - Low friction capital markets for charitable giving (think Watsi but for everything, and with better controls than 'GoFundMe') - Providing civic services for indigenous homeless populations. I could go on, there are lots and lots of problems. But to be clear it isn't a criticism of Phoenix that they are not solving a new problem, the feedback was that there are lots of solutions to the general form of problem they are solving and, as feedback on this announcement, I was trying to learn from their materials how they were different (and presumptively better) than those other solutions. I'm still looking for that summary somewhere. |