It starts here, and It starts now!

Imagine a place where you are a human node, that can communicate only with nodes you trust, with an option to communicate with any nodes around the world via a trusted path with no centralized authoritative regulations. That is open transport, and that is the freedom of speech, or the freedom to communicate.

Imagine a place where you are a human content repository, that can update “your status” to humans you trust, with an option to broadcast publicly with any/all humans around the world if you want to, with no central authoritative corporate that updates “your status.” That is privacy to you. You control your content, you do not let others make decisions on your behalf.

That world is here, and that world is you. Take an example. You are having a cup of tea with your brother at a cafe, or are at a conference in a room. You do not broadcast over the Internet to talk to your peers. That is fundamentally wrong, as it is allowing someone else to tap into your communications, make judgement and sell products to you. You do not trust a third-party to be able to hear everything you guys talk about — that is breach of privacy and that is unacceptable. The singularity in technology is when technology mimics humans - in communications, in intelligence, in sentiments and in reasoning.

Over the last year, I am involved with a mesh networking volunteer group. We envision that communications and transport should be local, or hyper local. Also with that vision, I think content should be distributed as well. Into the realms of bitcoins, block chains, merkle links, ipfs, blockstack — name it— I have realized there’s a revolution in making. Even more so after meeting so many brilliant minds who are hungry for this change last night. More to come on this. I want to be more involved in transport than content inline to my area of expertise.

And watch out for an announcement tomorrow [I am leaking here early]. It is an exciting time to be in the social enterprise space too ;)