This is a topic I’ve been pondering a lot lately. Post-Industrial futurism is a hobby of mine and I was in the early P2P discussions about digital currencies that led to Bitcoin. Recently, I wrote a paper for a Tallinn U project that explored reputation based economies built on Semantic Web technology as an alternative to inherently problematic numeric abstractions. I’ve long followed the development of Social-Semantic Network concepts like Netention and sought to envision the integration of networked production infrastructures with Social-Semantic networking to ‘weight’ the distribution flow of resources in the built habitat according to associative analysis of the congruence between individual and societal intention. And so I devised what I call the Digital Tao; an internet that knows you as a person and has a ‘pronoia’ imperative–a secret digital conspiracy to help you and everyone else. Sadly, my paper was rejected (I’m an amateur, after all) but it did help me fight my recent depression.
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