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I came across Nile for the first time in 2011

When Alan Kay presented his talk "Programming and Scaling" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9xLi0iJg1g best watch the whole talk!) The Idea to create an Approach that satisfies the users demands for personal computing in less than 10000 lines of Code, powered by DSL and other advanced concepts, seemed intriguing.

I searched the web and there was little to noting I found.

Later I found this talk in that at the end Dan Amelang also answers QA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY.

The Problem with the STEPTS project is that you need all the parts together: Maru, Nile, Gezira etc..

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11941656

In my opinion the two are talking not from the same perspective.

https://twitter.com/hendekahedron/status/745719174828298240

To understand their different contexts we can look where their relationship to the computing industry comes from.

Rich Hickey

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On Blockchains - Postcapitalism - in response to: Postcapitalism by Jamie Dobson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGdQnL4-H9M

An impossible thought?

But what do we want to think? I think many people want the same thing (see maslov pyramid of needs). But the ever interesting question in the history of humanity was: How to do that so that there exists an equilibrium between all humans (society) and the rest of the planet (nature). Personally I see post-capitalism as a part of a solution for that, but economy is only one thing that should change. To conceive such a complex balance is not a simple thing. Alan Kay often talks about how the internet has some biological ideas in it and yes I think to achieve that balance we need some kind of network organism where everyone is connected and heard. Even nature. So lets focus on that, the impossible thought: How can we live together in peace and prosperity with each other and nature? Sometimes, somehow this reminds me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K

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Hi Eric,

https://twitter.com/leashless/status/1002715630536151041 "We are going to need to be much, much smarter about this blockchain thing. It's not clear to people that we are building tools to manage scarce planetary resources through the difficult 21st century. They think it's just an extension of the current economy. That can't be true."

RChain Background from Actors to Rho Calculus to Blockchain

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In this I try to give a perspective on the changing influence of the (GAFA) tech companies. Very rough fragments which might trigger ponderings into interesting directions. After a long time of centralization, I think we now see the beginnings of decentralization. As the disadvantages of centralization become more and more apparent to developers and people in general. I view this process as a kind of transitioning process from the web2 to the web3 area.

Google

Steve Yegge

https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-grab-86dfffc0be84

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The Argument machine

If we look at the media perspectives podcasts give, I've noticed an interesting phenomena in two podcasts recently, the two are: the sam harris podcast and naval periscope.

It seems to me that these two act as aggregators. Which means they have a crowd of people which contribute questions which act as a kind of filter to increase the quality of content.

The questions is how good this models scales and how valueable is it to the people consuming the media its related to - the podcast. I think its a very good strategy to increase engagement and to circle even more attention towards the creator of the medium.

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It is hard to write about the web3 for me because for a piece of writing to be meaningful the writer has or imagines a connection to his audience. Argubly our society in the technological western world gets more complex every day. Last year I read the books: Sapiens and Homo Deus. In the book the author describes which immense leaps humanity as a species and as a civilization accomplish since the beginnings.

Stories are a foundational cornerstone of our understaning. We invent stories to achieve collaboration. As we march throgh history we invent new stories and abandon old ones.

Web3 to me means a lot of things many technical but these only give maning to values.

For me the web3 is about human values. Which simply means the best tool humanity has yet concieved to find the balance betetween the needs of the individual, society and the environment.

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Response to : Shouldn’t We Fix Poverty Before Migrating to Mars?

Poverty is a real issue but to "fix" it we have to work on many different aspects. One that is often overlooked for example is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofsncCF9O_U

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Lets examine this again: Shouldn’t We Fix Poverty Before Migrating to Mars

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Web 3.0 mind map https://www.mindmeister.com/de/770591459/juan-benet-the-next-internet-revolution

What would the web look like without search engines like they exist today? -> IPFS/SOLID/ Linked data

What would the web look like with a social networks which rewards its users instead of serving it ads which are generated by the content the users post.

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A Dashboard for Progress

The Term originated from the book : Utopia for realists. Discussing the terms GDP, GNP, GPI und ISEW.

One way to look at this problem or to look for the data of this problem is to look at academic research. In principle the universities should research technologies and then the whole nation would benefit from it. Ideally their research should be public, to all humankind.

Open Access

The next question would be what technology does a country have and where is it been researched?