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This video explores an angle I hadn’t considered before watching. It’s sourced from an organization called the EastWest Institute, which is new to me – link below.
Website: https://www.eastwest.ngo/info/about
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Hey Jefferson, very interesting, thanks!
I’m interested to hear more specifics from him on how such a home might be implemented.
In my view, this can be done immediately, and already is being done outside the mainstream, though becoming more popular.
The first way is by popularizing the ownership of personal servers. The key is the software, which needs to be as easy to administer as a smartphone, with server side apps to host your own email, calendars, contacts, cloud storage, web site, social media, videos, etc. This can all be done already, but takes a certain degree of technical savvy and a lot of patience. In fact you can now buy a $35 credit card sized computer called a Raspberry Pi that can do all the above and more, and many people are already using these as personal servers. But we need something so easy to use a 2 year old can use it.
Second is via a distributed Internet. Rather than storing all your data in the massive data warehouse of a Big Tech company, chop up the data into millions of pieces and scatter it across the Internet, fully encrypted, and we can host each other’s data via peer to peer distributed networks. Only you have the algorithm to reconstruct the data from all the pieces and decrypt it, so if your data on one machine is compromised, the hacker only gets a few scrambled pieces of encrypted jibberish… they get 3 random pixels of your family photo that is scattered across 1,000 different computers. There are already distributed social media networks gaining popularity today, such as Minds and Mastadon.
In terms of legal protection, if you host your own server, your server is still your castle. It’s illegal for people to hack your server. The tricky part is catching them and identifying them to then hold them accountable. That part needs work for sure.
But I’m wary of whatever legal “solutions” the East-West Institute might propose, because when I browse to their website I am met with the following quote:
“Few other institutions can approach the EWI track record of practical accomplishment in helping to change the world for the better.”
— George H.W. BushThis endorsement waves all the red flags in my face, and not because of dichotomous red vs. blue politics. For those that know anything about the Deep State, this should also ring alarm bells.
That being the case, I would beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing on this one. What legal framework does EWI want to put in place using some feel good language, but that might really hand even more control, data, and power to the Big Tech companies? I don’t know what they’re up to, because notably they did not give any specifics. It’s all abstract language in the talk.
So they’re warming people up to the idea of a home in cyberspace… they’re saying that cyberspace is “real.” Conflation between the virtual and physical reality? Hmm… Could this have anything to do with the coming proliferation of Virtual Reality and holograms? Are they starting to angle for a legal framework to regulate the new virtual world, which many people will start living part or all of their lives in, and so we need digital laws for digital “spaces?”
Could the speaker be sincere? Sure. And certainly the idea of personal sovereignty is a welcome one to be spreading these days. I’m not sure I’m totally on board with attention as a human right, because that presupposes that we are all at effect of people that manipulate our attention, and because we don’t have critical thinking skills we are helpless to protect ourselves, so we need laws to protect our weak minds from preying psychopaths doing social engineering. I guess I see both sides on this one… there is a case to be made that social media is akin to an addictive and harmful substance, and that people are having their neurologies unconsciously highjacked, so some legal protection against malicious psy ops could be beneficial in certain cases, though free speech is a concern there… people have the right to use language in a manipulative way. So really critical thinking skills are of far more importance than any legal framework here.
So thank you for sharing that one! Some very interesting things to ponder in there!
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Adam,
Thanks for such a critical and thoughtful reply on this!You’ve opened up my thinking in some new ways, and fed my curiosity into some new directions!
I agree about the ‘red flags’ you mention – and also like your speculation about the regulation and ownership of this ‘space’, that is a ‘place’ more and more people will likely be spending their time ‘inside of’. I hadn’t thought of that…
I agree that the video seems to posit the right of attention in a way that puts it forward as needing to be protected or garnered some kind of rule of law from some outside or governing body – and that occurs to me as a 6/4 vL orientation. As if: We know what ‘the world’ and ‘the people’ need protection from and we want to help provide this…
Wonderful response, thanks for engaging and bringing your rich thinking to this topic!
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I agree on the VL4/6 language… the question is is there a VL3/5 agenda behind the pretty language.
And another thought… if cyberspace is legally considered to be “space” as this video seems to be proposing indirectly, if there is unclaimed space then you could potentially found your own country that occupies that space, as the space would be Terra Nullius (according to Wikipedia – ‘Terra nullius is a Latin expression meaning “nobody’s land”, and is a principle sometimes used in international law to describe territory that may be acquired by a state’s occupation of it.’). So that MIGHT be something that the world leaders want to iron out now before there is a gold rush of digital squatters setting up their own digital nations with their own laws, digital currencies, and taxation (or not…)… digital “offshore” havens… Dot dot dot.
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