[EdSharkey]

Hi David, I read your blog post and skimmed the whitepaper. My opinion is that we are not missing encryption+metadata in our lives.

Internet companies thrive on specificity in the signals coming from end users. Twitter/Facebook > RSS, for example.

One trouble I see is that, to be productive and to be entertained, end users end up continuously dumping their hearts and souls onto data collectors at large internet companies.

Conversely, these internet companies hold the ubiquitous/universal data stores whose utility is all locked up behind the query and the scroll.

We need to invert that specificity/ubiquity relationship between end users and for-profit companies somehow. We need a mediating layer between users and for-profit companies. As users, we need to start with all-the-datas, ubiquity in local caches, and produce signals only when we contribute back.

With robotics and neural links, our current direct-connect model of internet computing poses existential risks.

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Thanks, Ed. You are right that we need different and better business models that incentivize good behavior on the parts of the big players. The Mimix Company certainly intends to act like good guys. Our business isn't built around holding or selling people's data or locking them to a platform. Having said that, I also believe that better tools are needed and that current software doesn't understand enough context to be useful in the kind of reading and writing we do every day.