Don’t Fix Facebook, Replace It

Post by jgh » Thu, Apr 05, 2018, 1:55 AM UTC

jamestimmins wrote: post #8

It's interesting that Tim Wu discussed the cycle of technology starting amongst outsiders and then becoming monopolized in his (phenomenal) book The Master Switch. The cycle always repeats itself by the next new technology coming along, making the prior one less significant. We seem to have accepted that the internet is essentially the final communication tech. Maybe that's true, but it seems improbable. Simply based…

Post by joejerryronnie » Thu, Apr 05, 2018, 2:37 AM UTC

jgh wrote: post #12

jamestimmins wrote: post #8

It's interesting that Tim Wu discussed the cycle of technology starting amongst outsiders and then becoming monopolized in his (phenomenal) book The Master Switch. The cycle always repeats itself by the next new technology coming along, making the prior one less significant. We seem to have accepted that the internet is essentially the final communication tech. Maybe that's true, but it seems improbable. Simply based…

I'm not really sure how blockchain is related to a potential "next" communication technology. Why not AR? Why not lasers n shit?

Post by ams6110 » Thu, Apr 05, 2018, 2:50 AM UTC

jjrh wrote: post #4

I think in the long run we will use a decentralised/federated system. Privacy concerns aside, it just doesn't make sense to rely on one service or expect one social network to meet everyone's needs/desires.

Post by ams6110 » Thu, Apr 05, 2018, 2:54 AM UTC

thephyber wrote: post #5

jjrh wrote: post #4

I think in the long run we will use a decentralised/federated system. Privacy concerns aside, it just doesn't make sense to rely on one service or expect one social network to meet everyone's needs/desires.

I think this is exactly how health/medical data should exist. My family should have their own health/medical network node and only my direct healthcare providers should be able to access the data from it and only after I authorize them with a digital signature. Whatever data they generate about my person (or persons in my family) should be owned by me, stored in my family network, and only available to others after I…

Post by ams6110 » Thu, Apr 05, 2018, 2:56 AM UTC

saganus wrote: post #9

thephyber wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is exactly how health/medical data should exist. My family should have their own health/medical network node and only my direct healthcare providers should be able to access the data from it and only after I authorize them with a digital signature. Whatever data they generate about my person (or persons in my family) should be owned by me, stored in my family network, and only available to others after I…

Uhmmm...just thinking out loud here. How feasible do you think it would be to use Mastodon for this? If you have a "Medical Node" as you put it (which I find apt btw), you could share it with your doctor(s) and provide access (maybe using Keybase? Auth0?) for them to either add "their own posts" with the analysis results, their findings, etc, or just to read the relevant data (e.g. for a dentist). Again, just thinkin…