[JunkDNA]

Bingo. I wish I could upvote this comment more. All the geeks get distracted by words like “cloud” or “virtual” and forget that all this stuff we depend on has a physical presence at some point in the real world. That physical presence necessitates humans interacting with other humans. Humans interacting with humans falls squarely in the “things governments poke their noses into” bucket. It’s like the early days of Napster when people were all hot for “peer to peer”, as if that tech was some magic that was going to make record labels and governments throw up their hands over copyrights.

[hnechochamber]

Dont worry, ill fix all this by creating a unique javascript framework that will change the world.

[danudey]

Maybe we could make this framework future-proof by using blockchains? Somehow? Maybe it can use blockchains, or it can be stored on a blockchain, or maybe both at the same time. Surely that will help society in some nonspecific, ambiguous manner.

[delaaxe]

Remember the people who, decades after the invention of the Internet, kept on insisting that it was useless and only for porn addicts?

Remember the people who, after the invention of the phone, insisted that it was a nice trick but probably only useful for a few businessmen with dictation needs?

Yeah, they all had to change their tone at some point, under the shame of having been wrong for so long.

[zymhan]

No, we just need another anonymous distributed networking/storage/socialmedia/coffeemaker protocol to save us