[morphle]

"It is the destiny of computers to become interactive intellectual amplifiers for all people pervasively networked worldwide."

JCR Licklider initially called it the intergalactic network, now know as the internet.

>We can build something else

Some of us tried (with internet fish swimming around) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXGLOiZUZ2U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9ldlqhVkM

https://tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/tr2003001_croq_collab.pdf

[talkingtab]

Far Out! Thanks.

We could use some Complex Adaptive System architecture to create galaxies. Or we could call them Gestalts instead of CAS.

In gestalts entities, use rules to interact with a read/write message bus.

Ants. Pheromone trails. Write when you find food, not if you don't.

We have the pieces for this. Entities - people. We have a r/w bus - the internet. What we don't have are rules. We can think of rules - the kind Wolfram talks about in NKofS - instead as a language. A language in the sense of Sapir-Whorf. "Twitter and Tear Gas" (Zeynep Tufecki) is a good illustration of Sapir-Whorf in internet languages. (Available as a pdf I think)

That language is the missing link. In Real Life there is a language for collaboration. Perhaps the task is to understand the elements of IRL collaboration and then transpose it.

One could make some guesses about fundamentals. As we have all discovered, one fundamental is trust. IRL Trust is identity and reputation based. With many caveats. Perhaps we could start by considering A New Kind of Identity. ?