The original UNIX came with social networking tools: "mail" for sending messages to people, and "finger" for status updates. Later systems added "talk" and "ytalk" for live chat.
We need something like social networking, payment and communication as layers of our networks with open protocols to just use this service without bothering creating an account on FB and other malicious services.
Sometimes I'd wish our internet would be more like the network the computers in Star Trek use.
Of course, back then everyone using a computer was doing so in the course of their employment and abuse of the system could result in being fired. Systems have become more closed partly because the anti-abuse function benefits strongly from centralisation so you don't have to duplicate effort whacking the same abusers.
> Sometimes I'd wish our internet would be more like the network the computers in Star Trek use.
We need something like social networking, payment and communication as layers of our networks with open protocols to just use this service without bothering creating an account on FB and other malicious services.
Sometimes I'd wish our internet would be more like the network the computers in Star Trek use.