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by shutter 6337 days ago
That would be awesome. If only those with the dough felt the same way...

Granted, there are hurdles -- concern for theft, infrastructure for loss/repair/upgrades, etc. But it would be incredibly exciting nonetheless.

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Well, I think if we can keep "bad" people inside prisons, then surely we can keep "bad" people outside a solid concrete block with no windows and nothing inside that is really useful outside.

We don't worry about people stealing a chunk of sidewalk for example. They do steal signs and road equipment and reprogram emergency signs, etc.

But if we look around the world, the benevolence that arises from innovative products is almost always greater than the destruction it causes. Nuclear War vs. Nuclear Energy for example.

This would be a project as owned and loved by the people as Hoover Dam or the Interstate System or Golden Gate Bridge. A wireless cloud built by the people, for the people, has the potential to make our lives better, collectively, than any of those indivdual projects. In comparison, those projects benefitted relatively few in the big scheme of things, but a public cloud would benefit all and we would make sure it would by providing access for all.

I think at this point, our ability to provide the technology services is increasing faster than producers' ability to fill it up. There is enough content already to entertain most of us for many, many lifetimes. We could record every second of our life on two video cameras every second we are alive and still have plenty of space left over...