Response to video: Future Of The Internet: 10 Predictions
It's strange to talk about the future, when you realize so many people are living in the past. So many things were discovered so long ago. Tesla wifi, free electricity, solar. What's been keeping those technologies at bay is the corporate greed environment.
In short, the future will have more people with more access to basic living requirements. Basic access to health care. Access to information, via Internet. Access to solar power, electricity.
These things were invented a long time ago, but it was not profitable to adapt in the majority. Free Internet is possible right now. All fiber in North America terminates at 151 front St in Toronto. I'm theory, we could light up the tower, with wifi. Everyone within line of sight of the CN Tower could access free wifi.
For good sake, the city of Belleville has free wifi provided if you can see the clock tower (city hall).
Hopefully, the future will also mean that more people will read scientific papers and understand how the human body works. If that happens, then they can have more control over their own bodies.
It's funny, in the new recently, canola oil has been proved harmful. We've known it for years, however, that high temp heated oils are harmful. There's papers on this, there's causation, there's a lot of evidence of this. Only now had the FDA finished their ten years of studies and released the report saying it's harmful.
Meanwhile, ten years of damage had been done, because people aren't taught enough chemistry, and it's not profitable to do so. Canada grows a huge amount of canola. We prove it to the world and make a lot of money exporting it. Also it's cheaper for people to buy.
I'm not entirely sure about that last one though. I know I can go to the Chinese butcher, get a bag of pork fat cuttings, and render it myself for $2-3. And get at least a liter. Lard which is much less harmful.
So clearly, the real commodity is information, and the speed of information.
That's what the Internet represents.
So we will spend the next 100 or 200 years catching up, and actually using the technology that's been around for 100 years.
Things will be come more efficient, more accessible. The best tools will rise to the top, regardless of who's trying to make money on it.
Another example: patents and copyrights. Unfortunately they are ridiculous and cause access denied to simple information. This includes scientific papers that are "pay Walled" and also archive. Org, attacked for providing library lending services of books and music.
Obviously there is a need, it's why sci hub exists.
The law has to keep up with the technology. Right now it's failing.
In regards to the report card, we should look to JPB Declaration of cyberspace. And we should defend it.
