| This! And the more immersive the technology is, the more the back-end should be open-sourced and put under the control of a free market of hosting companies and maintainers, that end-users and communities can pay. Right now we have: People
<=> Big Tech Server Farms
What we should have is: People
<=> Communities
<=> Hosting and Service Providers
<=> Developers
<=> Conferences, Certifications
The second kind of ecosystem can liberate people.Would you rather spend your years hooked up to Neuralink owned by Elon, or have a say in what you experience and mitigate the power dynamics? Would you rather spend 9 hours a day in a metaverse owned by Zuck+Facebook (oh sorry, Meta), Elon+Twitter (oh sorry, X), Bezos+Amazon, Page+Google (oh sorry, Alphabet) or would you rather at least have your own Minecraft server? Or better yet, have an open platform that anyone can fork and build on, like Linux, Wordpress or Ethereum? Technical overview: https://qbix.com/ecosystem Layperson overview: https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/ |